Posted by 1001 Webs on 11/07/07 00:13

On Nov 7, 12:19 am, Sherman Pendley <spamt...@dot-app.org> wrote:
> 1001 Webs <1001w...@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.
I understand that.
What I don't understand is why would anybody use anything but
percentages if that's what they used to define global settings to
start with.
I am not planning to use smaller units for the main text, but I have
to use them for several other places and my question is whether I
should use ems, percentages, keywords, points, pixels or whatever.
This is nuts.

Thanks anyway.

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