Posted by Stephen Poley on 05/28/06 15:27

On Sun, 28 May 2006 11:32:14 GMT, "Chris Tomlinson" <anon@anon.com>
wrote:

>"Neredbojias" <http://www.neredbojias.com/fliam.php?cat=alt.html> wrote in
>message news:Xns97D0F07334A2Ahttpwwwneredbojiasco@208.49.80.251...
>>
>> Incidentally, in something like <font size="4">text</font>, the font-size
>> _is_ relative, just like em units. But that type of markup was deprecated
>> years ago.
>
>Thanks for the feedback. I feel if it's good enough for the BBC to fix
>their font size, it may be good enough for me.

It's rather the other way around. If ones content is sufficiently
important / well-known, one can more easily get away with inferior
layout.

In fact I've just tried out the BBC site in IE: it's a bit weird. The
index pages and side-bars seem to have fixed size text, but the main
article text and some other components are resizable.

--
Stephen Poley

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