Tim Climis wrote: > Most graphic arts programs have the ability to guess the size of a pixel on > your monitor, presumably from your drivers or some setting in your OS or > something, so it seems that web browsers must be able to do that same thing. > So it stands to reason that if you want your fonts to be 10pt (which is > normal > for print media) instead of 12 or 16pt (which is the common default size at > the most common monitor resolutions) why not just set the font size to 10pt? > and then if you have a 120dpi monitor, your browser knows that's 17px, and if > you have an old 72dpi monitor, your browser knows that's 10px. And then it's > no more illegible than a novel or a newspaper.
But text on monitors is inherently less legible than text printed on paper. Even old moldy cheap laserprinters use 600dpi, and paper doesn't suffer from even subliminally-perceived refresh rates. And I don't personally consider 10px type sizes readable! -- David gn...@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
