On 5/17/05, Josef Dunne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'd been recommended 80% as an ideal default text size by a wide > variety of people, >including, IIRC, the WAI. > > >How would you recommend solving the problem? > > I would set the font size to 62.5% in the body tag. Then I would use Ems > to set the sizes of all my fonts on the page, By setting the font-size > to 62.5% means that if you enter 1.0em this will = 10px, same as 1.1em = > 11px, 1.2em = 12px and so forth, so its easier to work out Ems that way, > they make more sense. Also if you now try and set internet explorer to > "smallest" setting your text is still readable. Same as if you went to > the "largest".
I can't see that making the default text size that small makes sense - I'm perfectly happy with the text sizes we've defined and don't really care about the equivalent pixel size, just their relative size to each other. 80% is roughly equivalent to the old font size="2", which has been the standard default font size for as long as I can remember. I'm happy to go with it, and other than our fellow here have never had a complaint. -- Tom Hamshere ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
