Terrence Wood wrote: > Most modern browsers set the default font to something equivalent to IE > default/medium font size: 16pt or 16px @96dpi.... it's kind of a field
12pt @ 96 nominal DPI is 16px. 16pt @ 96 nominal DPI is 21.3px. For IE6 users who need and set large fonts in the OS, the nominal DPI is 120, and 12pt is 20px. On many laptops, the OS is preset to large fonts out of necessity. > leveler and fonts sizes are more likely to be similar cross platform, > and cross browser. Except that the reason for an adjustable UA default is so that users can adjust it to their preference and/or needs. Designers should not assume anyone uses any particular size, regardless where the browser settings may have been when the browser was authored. > Setting a smaller % size on the body means, as a designer, you can bring > the overall font size for a page down to something a little more usable > for most people Where do people get off making this assumption? Where are the poll results that show "most people" think browser text is too big? Nearly everyone I've run into who thinks browser text is too big is a web page designer. Most web browser users I've run into think most web page text is too tiny. Based upon total population, the number of users who think web page text is too small has to be far greater than the number of designers who think the default is too big, who consequently reduce it on the pages they create. I'm not alone in this line of thinking: http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/auth/font-size-quotes.html -- "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." U.S. Constitution, Amendment 1 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/auth/ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
