On 2007/05/25 17:54 (GMT-0700) Paul Novitski apparently typed:
> At 5/25/2007 03:10 PM, Christian Montoya wrote:
>>not all designers set
>>body font size to 62.5% when creating websites. It's enough to start
>>at 100% and set nested containers to fractions of that... just do the
>>math starting off from 16px. The point that Felix is making is that
>>setting the body to something small like 62.5% is very destructive,
>>since user stylesheets and user settings usually just override the
>>body rule (and ruin all your specific rules).
> "ruin"? Wouldn't it just make everything larger if they overrode the
> stylesheet with, say, body {font-size: 100%}?
Sort of, but Gecko browsers behave somewhat like IE does when it encounters
no explicit non-em font-size set on HTML or BODY and child elements are
sized in em, compounding the intended effect of the em-specified sizes.
That's what the images, particularly the last two, in my upthread post at
http://webstandardsgroup.org/manage/archive.cfm?uid=C46B1968-B1CC-B29E-B1E7CE11FA5AD23C
were supposed to demonstrate.
> I guess it will depend on which aspects of the layout are widthed in
> ems, but for most pages I'd think it would just start you out at a
> larger degree of [text and/or layout] magnification.
It's pretty routine that I must on 62.5% pages turn off author styles in
order to use the page, this due to content being allocated inadequate width
to fit without hiding or overlapping.
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