Sent by Tonico Strasser on 30 November 2003 22:10
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> As others have mentioned, default font sizes depend on the browser,
> operating system, and user.
>
> If you are looking for a good comparison of font sizes, take a look at Owen
> Briggs' immense compilation of font size comparisons:
>
> http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/typography/
>
> He suggests that 76% (0.76em) is consistent across all browsers. Eyeballing
> it, I make it out to be equivalent to the old-fashioned < font size="2" >
> on IE PC, which was a common size used across non-CSS sites from before.
Oh yes, that's what I mean. As the screenshots shows 76% = 12px in the
majority of the browsers.
I wonder if it would make sense to calculate smaller or larger fonts,
assuming the font-size is 12px.
body {font-size: 76%;}
h1 {font-size: 1.5em;} /* = 18px? */
/* I have no problem if the user has a special settings where the
font-size does not default to 12px, it's meant as a calculation base
only. */
Thanks, that helped.
Tonico
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