Whoa, I haven't kept track of this question due to other projects and a
new smart phone (too nice, might I add), and look at the replies.
Felix Miata wrote:
On 2014-07-26 21:40 (GMT-0400) Chris Rockwell composed:
... the original reason was to fix
some ie6/7 issues with em scaling.
Hence my language "in compliant browsers". :-)
Without looking further, there appear to be valid reasons for setting
font-size to 100% on body.
I can't think of any that make good sense as long as one needs not be
concerned with antique browsers.
this is one of those practices that I see no harm in
It doesn't hurt any more than anything else that isn't necessary
adding to overall page load size. It's anti-KISS. :-)
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