[thelist] Re: CSS article

Daniel Medley dm at lgcy.com
Thu Jun 20 10:13:01 CDT 2002


----- Original Message -----
From: "alex" <shortestpath at yahoo.com>
> "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?

>From what I understand using fixed text size is problematic in that it does
not allow the user to adjust the size to suit their respective vision needs.
Points can be especially problematic because a "point" can vary from
platform to platform, os to os. From what I've gathered reletive sizing
offers the most accessability.

Daniel





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