Hi Paul,
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> and I hope you will consider following the HTML semantics more closely.
??? 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.
The spec defines the terms, but the guidance and "BCP" for web development comes from elsewhere. A strong candidate for showing us "how to use the standard" is MozDev:
"It is best to use values that are relative to the user's default font size, and avoid absolute values such as lengths with units other than em or ex."
Anecdotally, there is lots of similar guidance on the web, but personally I like using MozDev as my primary source.
Can I also mention, to those discussing @media queries and (ad absurdum) a font size for every possibly resolution: that's silly. Browser developers are thinking of their users while developing their browsers, so those browsers already come packaged with 1) a well thought-out default font size for the context in which that browser is used, and 2) the ability for users to override the defaults based on personal preference. We should trust the browsers to handle rendering of fonts, we do not need to control every pixel on the screen.
Matthew Kerwin
http://matthew.kerwin.net.au/
http://matthew.kerwin.net.au/