- From: mrmazda via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2018 05:25:11 +0000
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There is no material difference in how a user adjusts his font preference in Safari vs. Gecko browsers. Both with the most common displays by default assume 96 DPI and 16px until such time as the user chooses to make a change. With HiDPI displays, it works the same way, but the physical meaning of a px is changed to compensate for the higher physical density. CSS medium in all is thus 16px until a user chooses to personalize. Konqueror, depending on version, provides a choice between WebKit and KHTML rendering engines. Its initial default size is 12pt (pt that depends on display density, as in CSS2; not pt that equals px, as in CSS3). e.g., 16px on a 96 DPI display, 22px on a 132 DPI display, and 28px on a 168 DPI display. Edge has subsumed the concept of a default text size within the knob it calls "Zoom", a simplified way to make everything bigger or smaller than the shipped default. This is a bit like what Gecko users asked for WRT text size as long as 18 years ago and never have gotten: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31961 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96096 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332275 Whatever numerical value may be assigned to the default or medium size, or its CSS px equivalent, really is of no importance to a user, and should be of no direct importance to web authors. The default size is presumptively the optimal size for every web user. Medium is an ideal pseudonym for the default, and should be, like its CSS equivalent, 1rem, the unit upon which all CSS sizes should ultimately be based. Medium should never have been removed from the specification in the first place. It's one of the few hints that CSS is supposed to be a language of suggestion that leaves ultimate control in possession of the reader, the only possible person who can determine the optimal text size for the display in front of his eyes. -- GitHub Notification of comment by mrmazda Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2430#issuecomment-381304817 using your GitHub account
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