Re: CSS article

At 14:02 20/06/2002 +0000, Peter-Paul Koch wrote:
Is there something wrong with doing this? How should text
>>size be set? In ems?
>
>Pixels, always pixels. They are the only unit that causes the same font 
>size on all operating systems.

EEEK!

Never set font sizes in pixels (unless you really have to have text an 
exact size, which you almost never do on the web).

Pixel sized text is difficult for the user to resize , and does not cause 
the same font size on all operating systems. (Think of 96dpi screens vs 
72dpi, as well as very high resolution systems (print) and very low 
(PDAs)).

Pixels are the least confusing for CSS authors, but the least convenient 
for web page users.

On the web, body text should not be sized at all. Headings and footnotes 
and the like should be sized using percentages or ems depending on your 
mood.

Andrew

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