I'd like you to allow me to argue on the side of flexible sizes for a minute. Flexible point sizes for fonts are important for usability reasons. People who don't see well want larger sized fonts.
One of the beauty of CSS is that it gives fluidity to layouts, making it possible for them to be viewed on a pda or a wide-screen monitor, and having the ability to scale fonts up or down in tandem with a tableless layout offers design possibilities that fixed image design doesn't offer. This is thinking outside the box in an entirely new way.
Compelling arguments are made on the side of flexible fonts by Jakob Nielsen [The usability guru] and Eric A. Meyers [The css guru]. I've read a number of strong recommendations against invoking the !important rule which would override individual users' style sheet preferences which they set up in user agents and never seen one argument recommending its usage. Some sites build a specific point size into their layout and provide access to alternate sizes through buttons on the site - see http://www.wired.com.
Kimi
What flexible fonts boils At 12:09 AM +0100 9/4/03, Joseph Harris wrote:
I am in a quandary over type size. I have noted the discussions which take place and will eventually apply the preferred form on my site. As a former journalist I am more comfortable with points and need a quiet hour or two to get round the relationship to the web forms.
At 12:20 PM -0400 9/3/03, Stephen Caudill wrote:
Another small quibble, point size should really only be used to specify print sizes in an @media import call to a style sheet. The prefferred method for accessible, resizable text is to use 'em' as the unit of measurement. typically I set my baseline at around '.9em' in my style for the 'body' element and scale up or down from there, depending on need.
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