Ah, ok. Either that person is misunderstanding the technique or I've just never seen anyone actually leave all text on a site at that size when I've seen it used.
Ideally, you set that (62.5%) as the base font size. Then you apply specific formatting to the rest of the site (headers, body text, etc.) so that text is not actually that tiny. Preferably using using scaleable sizing. *I* can't read text at that size either. :-) -----Original Message----- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Chris F.A. Johnson Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 3:22 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] Box model in IE7 On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Janice Schwarz wrote: > Can you clarify what your issue is regarding setting font size to 62.5%? > Just curious. Wondering if I'm missing something here. <http://bergamotus.ws/misc/sensible-css-text-sizing.html> > -----Original Message----- > From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] > On Behalf Of Chris F.A. Johnson > Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 11:28 AM > To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org > Subject: Re: [WSG] Box model in IE7 > > On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Christopher Kennon wrote: > > > S, > > > > See this article from "Links for light Reading" scrolling down a bit > > you'll find a JS solution that may prove useful: > > > > Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design > > <http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/169/> > > That article ceased to be credible as soon as I saw: > > "My suggestion for you is to do the following: start your CSS > stylesheet with > > html { > font-size: 62.5%; > } > " > > > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* > -- Chris F.A. Johnson, webmaster <http://woodbine-gerrard.com> =================================================================== Author: Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress) ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
