[thelist] Friday hlp! A reasonable scaled progression for H1 h2 h3 h4

Fri Oct 17 04:20:59 CDT 2003

On Friday, Oct 17, 2003, at 10:02 Europe/London, John C Bullas wrote:

> At 09:38 AM 17-10-03, David Dorward wrote:
>
>> On Friday, Oct 17, 2003, at 09:25 Europe/London, John C Bullas wrote:
>>>
>>> But if you have use fontsizes in points elsewhere in your CSS sheet
>>
>> Why do you have to have font sizes defined in points elsewhere in the 
>> style sheet?
>
> For rather large banner text on the tops of some pages, would it be 
> better to define heights/sizes in pixels?

Yes, but not much. % or em is still better.

>> Its highly inappropriate for use on screen (not least because most 
>> browsing environments are not set up to handle them correctly), see 
>> the Wiki link at the end.
>
> Q1 what/where would 100% be ( what "size" is the default derived from 
> usually?)

The parent element, unless its the <body> in which case the user 
preferences.
>
> Question 2: If I had to choose one system, what would be best?
>
> #1 Absolute font size, large x large, xxlarge
>
large, x-larger et al are relative sizes, but are very badly 
implemented in certain overly common browsers.

> #2 Percentaging (%)
> or #3 Relative units, 0.5em, 0.75em     t

Either