On Sep 5, 2007, at 10:09 PM, Dean Edridge wrote:
By giving users: body{font-size:100%;} you are doing the best you can at your end, and It's up to them to ensure they have correctly configured their browser to suit their eyesight or preferences.
I'd tend to agree with those that using the browser defaults as the base font size would be ideal. Unfortunately we're dealing with years of legacy web pages where the vast majority of fonts have been sized down already (in my own unscientific study, over 90% of the sites I sampled had the base <p> set to give an equivalent of 12-13 pixels.) The side-effect of this is that if you use 100%, the font-size on your site will be much larger than on every other site the viewer visits.
It's not rocket science to see that if the New York Times (base body 84.5%), Google (base body 12px), and Yahoo (base body 84.5%) all use smaller base font sizes, using 100% will result in fonts that look much larger than "normal."
This is not a discussion of philosophy but of practicality. I want my visitors to be able to resize the text to fit their needs, but I also want my site to adhere to a widely accepted standard, which is *not* 16px.
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