> When you make both height and width 76.1% of the default, the result is
> less than 58% of the original.
But in the end, it seems to me the user gets the same font size as if 'body
{font-size: 100%;}, given that all the other font-sizes are set above 1em
for regular paragraphs and above 0.9em for footnotes, for instance.
Can you see the test at:
http://cb2web.com/tests/testing.shtml ?
I have tested it in Opera 7.23, IE6 and Firebird and, IMO, the fonts within
the div76 (blue box) and div100 (red box) containers look the same at text
size medium (or 100%) and in fact, for the div76 container, the normal
paragraph is more readable at the "largest" setting in IE6 and the p.note is
still readable at "smallest".
What do you think?
The stylesheet is something like:
#div76 {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 76.1%;
...
}
#div76 p{
font-size: 1.1em;
}
#div76 p.note{
font-size: 0.94em;
}
#div100 {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 100%;
...
}
#div100 p{
font-size: 0.8em;
}
#div100 p.note{
font-size: 0.7em;
}
#div76 p.smaller , #div100 p.smaller{
font-size: smaller;
}
Carlos
----- Original Message -----
From: "Felix Miata" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 3:20 AM
Subject: Re: [WSG] Font size, and how large is large enough?
> 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.
> --
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> a day! No, no, man was made for immortality."
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>
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>
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