Steven Clark
From: Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] Font size, and how large is large enough? Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 22:20:52 -0500
Cb2 Web Design wrote:
> I tend to agree with such suggestion: applying a percentage in the body and
> then work with the remaining sizes in ems.
> I have done that in here:
> http://www.excellentsite.org/
> Do you think font size is to small?
It certainly starts out that way. With 'body {font-size: 76.1%;}' what you are saying is this:
"I don't have any way to know what size your default is, or whether it bears any relationship to what you like or need, so whatever that size happens to be, 12px or 18px or 28px or anything else, I'm making it more than 42% smaller than your browser preference."
In case you're wondering where the 42% comes from, it's because your rule on its face is a height, but implicitly also applies to the width. When you make both height and width 76.1% of the default, the result is less than 58% of the original. -- "Surely God would not have created such a being as man to exist only a day! No, no, man was made for immortality." President Abraham Lincoln
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