IMHO the only time that point size should be used in CSS is when formatting for print. Specifying a point size for use in a web browser is no different than specifying a pixel size. What looks good on one monitor may not look good on someone else's.
pixel-size fonts don't render the same in every browser, either. I don't mind switching back to pixel heights -- I've just noticed that most OS's seem to have a better job rendering point-sizes into something readable (since most of them know that 9pt looks good, but 11px may not).
9pt font is *not* that small. 12 point font is HUGE. The program listing font in mythweb is something like 9pt (or 11px -- forget if I updated it yet or not) and I still find it cramped at 1280x1024.
I have configured Firefox so that the default font looks good on my monitor. I can comfortably read anything that does not over-ride the font size. Font that is slightly larger or slightly smaller is still easy to read. But, by specifying a specific pixel size, my settings are being completely disregarded. And, on my 1400x1050 14" laptop, it looks too small.
um, "point" should be a relational size. If not, then it's a bug in firefox. If you change the font size in firefox so that it's bigger or smaller, the browser is supposed to render all hard-coded fonts larger or smaller in relation to the default font size. That's how galeon works, and how firefox works for me when I've tried it (I don't use it very often) -- if I "zoom" even the hard-coded fonts get bigger/smaller along with the rest of the text.
Thus, if your default font size is 9pt (down from the standard 12), and css says that something is 9pt, your browser would render it down around 7pt (9 * 9/12). it would be the exact same thing if I said the font was 1.5em (or whatever), since it's all done according to the relation between your default font size and the browser's original default font size.
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