Re: em

Todd Fahrner wrote:
> in many cases,
> authors quite reasonably want a unit system that is relative to user
> preferences alone, *not* dependent upon the document structure. Such
> a system already exists in CSS1, however: the font-size keyword
> system (xx-small - xx-large). It's just that WinIE previously
> destroyed the usefulness of this system by implementing "small"
> rather than "medium" as the initial value, as the spec requires.

Very true, but doesn't (even the latest version of) Mac IE do this as
well?

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Received on Tuesday, 20 June 2000 06:17:05 UTC