On Sun, 7 Feb 2010, Reese wrote: > 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;}
I'm at a bit of a loss to see why you would consider using either of them. > When you start doing measurements at different dpi values, aren't > you going to see about the same changes either way? -- Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfajohnson.com> =================================================================== Author: Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress) Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress) ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
