On 6/16/06, Anthony Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Have been looking to different font sizing methods and decided to go
> with a method suggested by Dan Cederholm (as I recall) )where the font
> size is defined in the BODY tag and then percentages are used to
> increase or decrease the size. EMs are used for line height.
> Example of the base setting:
> body {
> font-family: "Arial", sans-serif;
> font-size: small;
> }
I'm coming more and more to the view that we should, as much as
reasonable, honor the user's preferences. I'd therefore change your
rule slightly to make the default font-size on the body either 1em,
100%, or "medium", all of which I believe are equivalent and display
text at the browser's default font size. Or just leave it out, which
amounts to the same thing.
With Geko based browsers (Netscape, Firefox, and many others) the user
can resize his fonts with a keystroke, so really, what's the point of
fighting? I try to design my your sites so that they look OK in just
about any font size or screen resolution. That means giving up the
idea that I actually have any control over the user's preferences.
Fact is I don't and neither does anybody else. And doing things that
way makes things a lot easier but still leaves a surprising amount of
room for creativity in page design.
Of course what works for me may not work for anybody else.
--
Ed Seedhouse
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