Ron Koster wrote: > At 10:02 AM 2/13/2009 -0800, David Hucklesby wrote: >> I find that these percentages work best >> cross-browser: 69%, 75%, 82%, 94% ... with a base font-size of 100%.
> Firstly, from past threads, my understanding is that one shouldn't be > going any smaller than 100% -- or at least should try not to -- if > only to be in keeping with whatever it is that any particular user > has set their own settings at The 100% is needed as a base to avoid problems in certain browsers - others can explain this in detail far better than I. With regard to respecting users settings it seems more important to create in a way that the text /can/ be scalable to let them do what they want with it - hopefully without breaking your page design. Some ways of sizing prevent this from being possible - or at least make it difficult or problematic. As an "avid typophile" the following page may be interesting to you. <http://www.webtypography.net/Harmony_and_Counterpoint/Size/3.1.1/> regards, Brian ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
