On 04/18/2013 12:06 PM, Micky Hulse wrote:
From what I know, that's based on the browser and the user prefs.
On my Mac, using Firefox latest, there's a Fonts & Colors section of in the
prefs under "Content". The default font size out-of-the-box is Times 16.
Anecdote: I have an older friend, in his 60s, that has this set to
something like 14px. When I viewed my site on his computer all of the font
sizes were terribly small. It ended up that he had tweaked his default font
size in Safari. He said he preferred the size and was not open to changing
it back to 16. I thought it was odd, because he uses reading glasses to
surf the net.
I have a friend who used to run very high resolutions on a very nice 17"
CRT monitor. I could barely read the icon label text on his screen. He
had no problems - he used reading glasses with it.
Then, at the other end of the scale, Larry Niven or Jerry Pournelle (I
forget which one was doing this) used a 17" monitor at EGA resolution
(640x350?) so the text was big enough for him to read ...
Now just imagine a visitor coming to your site using his or her Google
Nexus 10 running at 2560x1600 resolution on a 10" diagonal display ...
16px is going to be VERY TINY!
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