[thelist] Is 8pt too small on a Mac?

[Mike Migurski]

I would suggest using pixel values, as they don't change between monitor
resolutions. In my experience, 10px is the absolute minimum size before
text starts to become unreadable.

-mike.

On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Martha Hesselein wrote:

>Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 09:37:31 -0500
>From: Martha Hesselein <mhessel at forwardconsulting.com>
>Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>Subject: [thelist] Is 8pt too small on a Mac?
>
>I'm working on a site with text navigation. I want to use 8pt, but I
>understand that things look smaller on the Mac.  Is 8pt okay, or must I wade
>into using relative sizes?
>
>I have seen a nifty javascript to use different style sheets (with differing
>font sizes) upon detection of os/browser at www.pbs.org.  But I'd rather not
>go that route, if I need not.
>
>TIA
>
>Martha Hesselein
>
>
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