Posted by Sherman Pendley on 11/06/07 23:19

1001 Webs <1001webs@gmail.com> writes:

> On Nov 6, 10:01 pm, "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Right, if you use it the way they do, which means not for regular
>> text. They use it only for things such as copyright notices and
>> legalese.
>
> I have to settle for something.
> What's your advice?
> I tried with percentages and didn't look right, but I wasn't taking
> into account inheritance ...
> Many people recommends percentages for html/body as a "global" setting
> and then using ems from then on.

What Chris meant is that it's bad practice to use smaller than normal text
outside of "fine print" like copyright notices and legalese. The problem
with specifying body text at (for example) 60% is not the use of % units,
the problem is that for many folks it will come out too small to read.

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