Posted by rf on 10/25/07 05:17

"dorayme" <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:doraymeRidThis-C1F732.13522225102007@news-vip.optusnet.com.au...
> In article <13i00pvtcpof7fe@corp.supernews.com>,
> Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> wrote:
>
>> ??? Small? Ten point is standard on some typewriters and seems to be
>> the size one sees of text in NGs...

NG? Newsgroups? Even *my* news client allows me to set the size *I* want to
view text at.

If you mean those forum things, well they are just sheep following all the
other sheep.

dorayme, you should mention *before* citing the following URL that the
advice contained therein is bad advice and totally outdated.

> http://www.basictips.com/which-font-size-px-pt-em.shtml
>
> I mention it because there is a lot of bad advice about. OP
> should not be fooled in researches.
>
> Here is some more sensible stuff:
>
> http://k75s.home.att.net/fontsize.html


Agreed.

> http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=UsingPoints

So why does this site specify font-size: small?

--
Richard.

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