Hi Joel, On 2015-04-22 18:06, Henrik Levkowetz wrote: > Hi Joel, > >> On 22 Apr 2015, at 17:49, Joel M. Halpern <jmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> I have to agree that 12pt produces too large a default. Is there an easy way for me as a user to experiment with what 10pt would look like, so I can comment on that? And is there an easy way for me to try that size on my phone, to see if it seems equally readable there? > > I'll set up a bunch of sample pages for you to try out. Here are links to pages set up with 9pt, 10pt, 11pt and 12pt: https://tools.ietf.org/pt/ Best regards, Henrik > > Best regards, > > Henrik > > >> >> Thanks, >> Joel >> >>> On 4/22/15 11:42 AM, Paul Wouters wrote: >>>> On Wed, 22 Apr 2015, Henrik Levkowetz wrote: >>>> >>>> ??? You obviously believe that a font size of '1em' or 'medium' is >>>> semantically >>>> more correct than '12pt'. Can you back that up? The CSS 2.1 >>>> specification >>>> is very clear about the semantic meaning of point sizes, see Section >>>> 4.3.2 of >>>> the CSS 2.1 specifcaiton. >>>> >>>>> If you don't want to use "1em", please consider "medium", which tells >>>>> the browser to use the default size it believes is best based on >>>>> defaults and configuration by the user. >>>> >>>> That's funny. 'medium' is the default setting, which is what you get >>>> with >>>> 1em. Hilarious :-D >>> >>> Today I thought my browser on my laptop had a bug in it, because it >>> displayed the draft using insanely big letters and I had to hit ctrl "-" >>> to bring the size down to something reasonable. Then I noticed this >>> thread :P >>> >>> Paul >> >