[thelist] XHTML/CSS Code Review Please

[Jono Young]

Thanks, great explanation!

On 10/1/03 4:58 PM, "MaKo" <shark at mako4css.com> wrote:

> "Jono Young" <Jono at brookgroup.com> wrote in message
> news:BBA0B3B5.5DE9%Jono at brookgroup.com...
>> I am fairly new to CSS, but isn't it better to set font sizes as pixels,
>> instead of percent?
>> 
> 
> Jono,
> 
> not necessarily. Some browsers for example can't 'scale' pixel-sized
> fonts. That means, if the designer decides to use an unreadably small font
> I have no hope of adapting the text to a size that is pleasant for *me*.
> 
> Besides that, the element <h1> has already inherent properties - one of
> them is that the font for a <h1> element is the largest font in that
> document - aside from 'artificially altered' text-sizes. The 130% take the
> 100% font-size of that particular font and enlarge it another 30%. 10px
> Times New Roman are different in size from 10px Verdana, but by using %
> (or em) the scaling of the font takes the 'specific font' issue into
> consideration.
> 
> -- DTH?
> 
> MaKo
> 
> ...just when you thought it was safe to go back into the wwwater...
> http://www.mako4css.com/
> 

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