From an accessibility point of view, if font sizes in style sheets aren't set as percentages or em units then users can't alter the display size ie
make the font size larger or smaller. Of course this means that it's
virtually impossible to control the way the page looks across all browsers,
but is that so important? I don't need to change the size of a web page
because of a disability, but I like to if I think the text is too small to
read comfortably etc. Shouldn't the user have more control than the
designer? I guess that's a big question from a small original
one. Sorry! More info about styles and font sizes below.
CSS Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 W3C Note 6
November 2000
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-CSS-TECHS/
Rich In Style CSS Master class
http://www.richinstyle.com/masterclass/
Web Review's StyleSheet Reference Guide
http://www.webreview2.com/style/
Kylie Baxter
At 10:56 23/03/2001 +0000, K Fearon wrote:
>Are you talking about setting font sizes within style sheets? Setting
>themwithin the doc using <font size> is deprecated now.
>
>I'd appreciate an explanation too - the font setting seem to vary so much
>depending on someone's screen size and browser settings that it's hard to
>know how it will come out.
>
>Kriss
>
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