On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 05:04 AM, Daniel Convissor wrote:
The font size is nowhere hardcoded. It uses em and %.
That's hard coding. We shouldn't be setting it at all.
It's not hard coding here. Let me explain:
Using em measurements we can set a font to be proportionally bigger or
smaller than the font-size for it's container. For example:
body { font-size: 0.75em; } /* Set all fonts to be 0.75 * the browser size
*/
body h1 { font-size: 1.25em; } /* Set h1 elements to be 1.25 * it's
container */
body p { font-size: 1.00em; } /* Set p elements to be the same size as it's
container (0.75) */
If the end user had a visual impairment they would set their browser's font
sizes to a larger setting. Because our font sizes are proportional to that
setting their view of the page has larger text than someone who's browser
font-size is set to normal.
If we didn't set font-sizes at all all text would be the same size (assuming
we're using a CSS Reset) which is pretty ugly :-)
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Ross Masters
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