On both my Macbook Pro 13" using Chrome and my iPhone 6 using Safari, "responsive" looks the best, on the phobe it leaves a small margin on the right. Of the others, on the laptop, 10 looks the best, and on my iPhone, 9 leaves a bit of a larger margin on the right, but is the most readable because 10, 11, and 12 all look identical, taking the text right up to the right edge of the screen.
Cheers,
Andy
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 1:09 AM, Henrik Levkowetz <henrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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
>>
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