On 18.12.2010 17:37, Felix Miata wrote:
Note that the impact of 32px minimum font size (or 24px, which is not
in fact the Firefox limit) and setting the browser's default to 32px
(or 24px, which can be larger in Firefox via about:config) cannot be
expected to have equivalent impact, particularly if you set container
widths in px instead of em or rem. Page zoom will stretch those px
widths, while larger than 16px default browser settings will not.
Would be a shame if page zooming and font resizing had equivalent
impact. No use having both options available in our browsers then.
But, we have had this issue on the table a few times, and seem to always
end up more or less on opposite sides :-)
It's nice for these cases that 32px is considered twice 16px, because
in fact the nominal CSS sizes are not real sizes, but, as in the print
world, merely heights. Physically, 32px (1024 dots/char) is four times
16px (256 dots/char).
Yes, CSS font sizes are heights, not squares. And huge differences in
aspect ratio between font families too often messes up visual size and
readability.
Question: is 'font-size-adjust' well enough supported across
browser-land today to be of any use?
regards
Georg
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