Posted by dingbat on 09/14/05 13:11

Jim Higson wrote:

> a lot of the very beautiful
> pages on CSS Zen Garden have text at 80% or smaller.

Body copy goes at 1em / 100%, no exception. Anything else is up to the
user.

> From what I can tell,
> this is because browsers (IE especially) have the default text size set to
> be quite large.

IE users should be beaten with sticks until they stop it.

For IE users on the Mac, put nails in the sticks.


> The "font-size:80%" phenomenon seems to be a larger problem among web
> designers

You mis-spelled "dezyner"




You _CANNOT_ design a web site with unusably small text in the body
copy, even if it makes the design look prettier. The web coder just not
have this as an option - all you have is the choice between "Make my
site usable by default" and "Irritate my users by making them adjust
something until it is readable".

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