[thelist] User Agent Capabilities (was: CSS: Unix and font sizes)
Charles F. Johnson
charles at littlegreenfootballs.com
Mon Apr 16 08:41:01 CDT 2001
Joe Crawford <jcrawford at avencom.com> typed:
>> another way to handle it would be for browsers to support a "baseline" font
>> size, so the designer could specify the default setting and scale up and
>> down without fear of creating unreadable pages.
>
> I believe you just described 'em'.
>
> If you like 10px, and I like 20px as default font, then 1.5em is one thing
> to you (15px), and another thing to me (30px).
Exactly -- and that's why it would be nice to be able to specify an
*absolute* baseline font size. Unfortunately, the way ems work right now,
the designer has no idea how large (or small) a visitor's fonts will be.
charles johnson
lgf web design
http://littlegreenfootballs.com
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