Re: css font question - css purpose

Hate to argue (not really :P) but...

Css was meant to control the display of the web page. The idea, a faulty 
one in my opinion, being that the two  aspects of the web page should be 
kept completely separate.

That's why the current trend of not using the Body tag's attributes of 
background, bgcolor, text, link, vlink, and alink are in favor. So that all 
aspects for the layout of a page could be kept totally separate from the 
content and could be addressed without any consideration for the latter.

Why else would the current html standard be in a constant state of flux. 
Web designers have always wanted to present their ideas with their sense of 
esthetics. It's what css is all about. The px measurement for a font 
(thought I forgot what I was talking about didn't you :P) *should* be hard 
to override. If you, the user that is, do not want to pay attention to the 
artistic effort of the designer, turn your css off. You'll be left with 
only the content for your page and it will display exactly as your 
browser's settings dictate.

My 2 and half cents!

Thomas
     mailto:trumley(at)softhome.net
     http://aboveboardlinks.com

>px is very bad because the end user can't easily resize it (which is part 
>of the reason for its cross platform consistency).
>
>You don't need - and shouldn't want - your pages to display the same 
>across a range of systems. You should want your page to display to the 
>best way for the user on whatever system they are using.
>
>Andrew

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