OK, humble apologies for double posting.

It takes about 6 hours(!!!) for my message to post, I made one late at
night and the next morning had forgotten I had made it, as it wasn't
there, so made another one.

1. I turned all the fonts to %, but then how do you specify the first
font size that you want as your basis? After all I chose 10pt for a
reason, it sets the page up better than 12, or 9.

2. Those damn google adds I wil try and move it more.

3 I tested on Opera, and IE, and with different screen sizes.

Despite putting my foot in the poo by double posting, I really do
appreciate the input. Many things like this, for us "newbie CSS
enthusiasts" are hard to garner elsewhere, thanks again for your
input.

Quoth the raven Gary:

It takes about 6 hours(!!!) for my message to post, I made one late
at night and the next morning had forgotten I had made it, as it
wasn't there, so made another one.

No excuses!

1. I turned all the fonts to %, but then how do you specify the
first font size that you want as your basis? After all I chose 10pt
for a reason, it sets the page up better than 12, or 9.

body { font-size: 100%; }
h1 { font-size: 150%; }
..copyright { font-size: 85% }
and so on. Don't set anything for p, for example; it inherits from body.

No pt or px, please. 10pt may look good to you in your browser, but to
me is unreadable.

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-bts
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Quoth the raven brucie:

In comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets Beauregard T. Shagnasty
said:


body { font-size: 100%; }
h1 { font-size: 150%; }
.copyright { font-size: 85% }

text 15% smaller than my preferred size is unreadable. whats wrong with:

body{font-size: 115%; }
h1{ font-size: 165%; }
.copyright{ font-size: 100% }

Maybe your satellite is reducing the size to your computer? <g>

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-bts
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Gary wrote:

It takes about 6 hours(!!!) for my message to post, I made one late at
night and the next morning had forgotten I had made it, as it wasn't
there, so made another one.

1. I turned all the fonts to %, but then how do you specify the first
font size that you want as your basis?

AAARGGGHHH!!!! Don't you people learn anything?! YOU shouldn't specify
the font size that YOU want, I set my browser up such that 100% is the
size that I want normal body text. You may suggest sizing relative to that.

After all I chose 10pt for a
reason, it sets the page up better than 12, or 9.

Yeah, on your machine maybe. Try writing a design that is independent of
text size.

What is 10pt, anyway? 10/72"? How's that going to look on my 9-foot
projection screen or my 1.8" wearable computer's glasses-mounted display?

Forget trying to make your web documents like print documents.

--
Mark.
http://tranchant.plus.com/

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 14:50:12 +1000, brucie <shit (AT) usenetshit (DOT) info> wrote:

In comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets Beauregard T. Shagnasty
said:

body { font-size: 100%; }
h1 { font-size: 150%; }
.copyright { font-size: 85% }

text 15% smaller than my preferred size is unreadable. whats wrong with:

body{font-size: 115%; }
h1{ font-size: 165%; }
.copyright{ font-size: 100% }

Then my preferred text size, which was chosen to balance readability with
as much content above the fold as possible, has still been overridden by
most of the text.

My view is that if the text is not required for the user to use the site,
it can be at reduced size. .copyright {font-size: 85%;}, if used solely on
copyright info, would fall into that category IMO.