On Feb 22, 2011, at 4:34 PM, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Germán Martínez wrote:
>
>> I'm giving the body a 1.4em so it will be like 14px.
>
> Why? That's too small for me (and many other people) to read.
I know 14px is not an optimal font-size, but we're not discussing
readability here.
>
>> I'm doing this because my markup has nested sections and I can't use
>> section {font-size: 1.4em;} or can I?
> Why would you want to?
What do you mean with that?
>
>> On Feb 22, 2011, at 4:07 PM, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Germán Martínez wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I've always used body {font-size: .625em;} as a way to manage more easily
>>>> the font-size and I was wondering if using:
>>>>
>>>> html {
>>>> font-size: .625em;
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> body {
>>>> font-size: 1.4em;
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> will be a better solution, are there any known quirks for defining
>>>> font-size on the html element?
>>>
>>> Why not: body { font-size: 100%; } ?
>>>
>>> That way you will use the size that the user prefers rather than one
>>> that is probably too small to read comfortably (87.5% of the
>>> viewer's comfortable size).
>
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> Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com/>
> Author:
> Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress)
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Best,
Germán
Germán Martínez, UX Designer
http://martinez.pe
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