Laura Carlson wrote:
body { font-size: small; }
Such a rule is saying, in effect, "the content on this page should be
one size smaller than the user's comfortable reading size." Small
font sizes for main body text is user-hostile. (The converse rarely
seems to exist; it's unusual to find a site that is too big, although
I suppose some must exist.
A side-effect of small font-size on body is that Opera & Firefox will
display all fonts *much* larger then the author intended - if the
visitor set 'minimum font size' in order to prevent unreadable small
fonts. That's because the result of this browser-option is inherited
down the chain.
The result is often 'very readable text but broken layout' at the
visitor's end, and a somewhat confused author at the other end when they
get reports.
Georg
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