I subscribe to several CSS newletters, and today one come into my
mailbox with some caveats I had never heard of before about absolute
font sizes, and especially about their unreadability on Macs. I had
always heard that if you set pixel font sizes, IE users couldn't make
them larger.

Below is the relvant section of the newsletter. Is this info accurate?

Yone
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If you are concerned about your site being usable to your readers then
setting absolute font sizes is not a good idea. This means that if one
of your customers has their browser set to a larger font size than you
consider normal, they won't be able to read your Web page.

If you set your font sizes to percentages, this will insure that your
pages are readable and look good no matter how your readers have their
settings. 100% is the default size that the browser is set to, less
than 100% would be smaller and more than 100% would be larger.

This is especially important if you design with a PC and a lot of your
customers use Macintoshes. Setting your fonts to percentages means
that the pages won't come out as unreadable gibberish on the
Macintosh.
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