[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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