Tom Hamshere wrote: > On 5/17/05, Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Because of your 80% "default" font size, I have to zoom at least one > > step to use those Flights selects. They're already messed up at that > > point. After I zoom once more, it's a serious mess. Depending on which > > browser I open it in, it may or may not display any of your "More search > > options". > I'd been recommended 80% as an ideal default text size by a wide > variety of people, including, IIRC, the WAI. If from WAI it must be some misinterpreation. What URL makes such claim? I made Google search the site, but was unable to find any such recommendation. OTOH, its home page's <http://www.w3.org/WAI/> CSS http://www.w3.org/WAI/style/waihome3.css has only two font size rules: H2 { font-size: 140%;} .policyfooter {font-size: 90%;} "Bobby" seems to have been replaced by "Webexact", which on http://webxact3.watchfire.com/themes/standard-en-us/help/HIDD_WDContent_G104.html contains the following: "...define your base font size as "100%", which will cause it to be the user's preferred size." http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/font-size says: "Avoid sizes in em smaller than 1em for text body..." On http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dao/ John Allsop writes: "If you don't set a size for the text in the BODY, then the text of the BODY will be the size that the reader has chosen as their default size. Already we are aiding adaptability of our page, simply by doing nothing! "You might say "but the text looks too big" if I just leave it like that. Make it smaller then. But *in your browser*." > How would you recommend solving the problem? Here's the real problem: http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/evang-part.html#note2 If you haven't seen it already, read: "Another way to think about font-size control" at http://css.nu/articles/font-analogy.html -- "Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made." John 1:3 NIV 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 ******************************************************
