On 07-Feb-10 03:50, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2010/02/07 01:09 (GMT-0500) Kym Costanzo composed:
>
>> Regarding your question about making the page too small for you to read, I
>> am open to any teaching you wish to offer. As I learned CSS, I read over and
>> over that the "right" way to size fonts is to set the page font size to
>> 62.5% and then increase using ems.
>
> That insanity seems to have originated at http://www.clagnut.com/blog/348/
>
> http://www.bergamotus.ws/misc/sensible-css-text-sizing.html and
> http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/Clagnut/bbcnSS.html describe that method's impact.
I'm at a bit of a loss, to see the difference between
* {font-size: 100%;}
body {font: 0.84em;}
and
* {font-size: 84%;}
body {font: 1em;}
When you start doing measurements at different dpi values, aren't
you going to see about the same changes either way?
Reese
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