Re: Header, Footer, and Sidebars

Hakon Lie wrote:

>... To strengthen the base font size, it should also be
>used as the initial value of the 'font-size' property and the spec
>should state that relative values on the root element are relative to
>the initial value.

I see what you mean...

  HTML { font-size: 1.1em }    /* relative to what? */

How about a hypothetical BASE element one level higher than HTML,
inaccessible to authors and accessible to users only through the UA's UI? UA
defaults could still be expressed in terms of a default stylesheet.

David Perrell