On 2009/02/17 17:13 (GMT-0600) RePost composed:

> Felix Miata wrote:

>> To amplify David's original implication and subsequent response, use of px
>> for sizing text is an affirmative design choice that whatever text sizes are
>> acceptable to or preferred by the design's visitors are utterly irrelevant.
>> Whatever size in px seems most appropriate to you in your own environment
>> bears little useful relationship what may be appropriate in the environments
>> of the visitors.

>> A corollary is px for setting line height.
>> http://fm.no-ip.com/auth/line-height-inherit.html demonstrates how it can be
>> a problem.

> Felix, I don't quite get this "Use only <number> for line-height" 
> business proposed at the link you provided.

You don't understand the demonstration you see there?

> If your "number" is neither percentage nor em nor pixel, what does it 
> represent?

A multiplier. Other multipliers are em and %, but these others have meanings
when inherited that can be problematic, which that URL is supposed to
demonstrate. http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html#propdef-line-height
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