I've been following Owen Briggs' [www.thenoodleincident.com] method. Owen did extensive testing to come up with setting the body declaration to 76% (not 75% or lower) and setting other font sizes using ems. It's worked pretty well for me. If nothing else, Owen's work is one of the most impressive examples of the scientific method being applied to a standards problem, with 264 screen shots to back it up. Research here: http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/box_lesson/font/index.html Typography example here: http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/typography/index.html
David -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick H. Lauke Sent: Wednesday, 15 September 2004 5:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] I need advice with following font size standards and IE haggis wrote: > Hello; > What I do is to set the font-size to 100% in my CSS "body" declaration > and use percentages or em's for all other declarations, that way it > matters not what size it is on the website or the user text sizing is, > the user will always see it at his or her settings in their browser. Only if you don't size it down (percent sizes below 100%, or ems below 1.0) in the following declarations, of course. Otherwise you could have body { font-size: 100%; } p { font-size: 1%; } ;) Patrick _____________________________________________________ re.dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held in Sydney, September 30 and October 1, 2004 See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held in Sydney, September 30 and October 1, 2004 See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
