Posted by Gernot Frisch on 09/26/33 11:44

"Andy Dingley" <dingbat@codesmiths.
> 1. "You" (site author) don't get to control this, "I" (visitor) get
> to
> control it. Otherwise you can't tell what's actually readable on my
> screen.

OK, I use * {font-size: 1em;} now, though it's a bit large for my
taste...

> 2. "Points" are a physical dimension, from the history of paper
> printing. You can't translate them onto a screen with any real
> certainty.

I didn't know that. In any text-program you specify font size in pt -
that's why I thought...

> 3. "14pt" is by vague default and tradition, quite a large size.
> "Default" size for printing is more like 10pt. If you could force a
> real "14pt" onto people, then I doubt you'd actually like it for a
> mere
> hit counter.

I wanted it that size. That's OK.

> 4. Set body text to 1em and don't mess with it. Vary sizes
> proportionately from that, with % or em units, not points. Don't
> vary
> smaller than 67%, or else things are likely to be unreadable (If I
> could read text smaller than 2/3rd of default, I'd probably already
> have set my default smaller).

For the menu-bar texts I have to use 14px font size, since I urgently
do not want it to be larger than the bar-image in the background. Is
that OK?

Thank you for your help,
-Gernot

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