Sent by Adam Kuehn on 19 November 2003 14:02
[EMAIL-REMOVED] wrote:
> > body{font-size: 76%;}
>> a:link, a:visited{text-decoration: none;}
>
>Speaking only for myself and not for Mr. Elbourne, this has been a
>recommendation of the css-discuss wiki up until Nov. 12 [1].
My read of the Wiki is that this was an example used for illustrative
purposes, not an actual recommendation. At Macintosh defaults, a
size of 76% is almost completely unreadable at a screen resolution of
1024x769 or higher. Therefore, I strongly doubt that the author of
that piece considered it any more than an example.
>There was a
>write-up that did a study [3] to show that text sizes were relatively the
>same across the board (ie, other modern desktop browsers) if you used 76%
>for the body, and em's for all other, child font-sizes.
I don't know what "study" this was, and the limited conclusion may
well be correct that 76% renders relatively the same across browsers.
However, consider that rendering the same may be considerably less
important than rendering readably.
Each designer needs to choose for themselves whether or not they wish
to design with an eye toward browser defaults, and if so, whether or
not to account for cross-platform differences. However, designers
looking for help on this list should know that help will be more
readily available (from me at least) if text sizes are friendly. I
was considering taking a closer look at this site, but simply backed
out when I saw the text size. It isn't worth my time to fiddle with
a site that presents me with unreadable text. I just make the
assumption that the designer hasn't done their homework and can't be
helped.
But maybe that's just me.
--
-Adam Kuehn
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