I would stick with the original approach and then re-size up using ems. The clagnut article recommended first scaling everything down to 62.5% for ease of calculation when scaling back up using ems. The premise was that a 'default' text size of 16pt would be scaled down to 10pt and then you take it from there.
I do believe that somebody else (can't find source right now) suggested first scaling down to 76% and then resizing up. Not for ease of calculation, as per clagnut, but as a result of empirical tests which showed that this produced the most consistent result in terms of final font size across all browsers / platforms
- Rob
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On 03/11/06, Tony Crockford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just to clear up my confusion.
I've been in the habit of setting font-size on body to 100.01% because
AIUI it stops IE doing silly small font sizes when you use ems elsewhere
and the .01 is for Opera and a weird rounding issue.
recently I picked up the habit of setting body to 62.5% from
http://www.clagnut.com/blog/348/
which I think is wrong, from what I'm hearing & seeing recently...
is it okay to set body to 100.01% and then use ems on elements to meet
the designers whim?
maybe I don't mean *okay* per se,[1] but assuming I have to set a font
size to meet a clients brief, which would be the most respectful way?
100.01% on body and elements sized using ems (by trial and error) or
some other way?
bearing in mind that I'm working remotely from the designer client, who
is often designing on a Mac what settings would let me choose font sizes
that would look like they match the visual I'm working to, without
causing problems for users with different preferences?
TIA
[1] I assume not setting any size is best, but in the real world my
income depends on making web sites match a signed off visual
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