Sent by Chris F.A. Johnson on 8 February 2010 01:01
On Sun, 7 Feb 2010, Reese wrote:
> On 07-Feb-10 03:50, Felix Miata wrote:
> > On 2010/02/07 01:09 (GMT-0500) Kym Costanzo composed:
> >
> >> Regarding your question about making the page too small for you to read, I
> >> am open to any teaching you wish to offer. As I learned CSS, I read over and
> >> over that the "right" way to size fonts is to set the page font size to
> >> 62.5% and then increase using ems.
> >
> > That insanity seems to have originated at http://www.clagnut.com/blog/348/
> >
> > http://www.bergamotus.ws/misc/sensible-css-text-sizing.html and
> > http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/Clagnut/bbcnSS.html describe that method's impact.
>
> I'm at a bit of a loss, to see the difference between
>
> * {font-size: 100%;}
> body {font: 0.84em;}
>
> and
>
> * {font-size: 84%;}
> body {font: 1em;}
I'm at a bit of a loss to see why you would consider using either of them.
> When you start doing measurements at different dpi values, aren't
> you going to see about the same changes either way?
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Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfajohnson.com>
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