[thelist] Re: CSS article

Techwatcher techwatcher at accesswriters.com
Fri Jun 21 09:35:01 CDT 2002


> I'm still in the middle of reading the article but there's
> a part where she says
>
> "If I had a dime for every corporate site that tries to set
> text size in points..."
>
> Is there something wrong with doing this? How should text
> size be set? In ems?
>

I have a problem with this, too. Normally, I don't set text sizes at
all (I come from the "trust your browser" school of Web design). But, I
like to use CSS to specify that headings (at least through level 3)
should use the non-serif font family as well as being centered. On the
connected machine I'm using, that apparently means Universe. Universe
is WAY too wide and big. So, I specify font sizes in points for the
headings (I use 18, 14, 12 for levels 1, 2, 3 respectively). Does
anyone have a better solution? Some simple, elegant way to display
decent headings without forcing a font download or some other bandwidth-
clutter?

Cheers
Carol Stein
techwatcher at accesswriters.com




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