I agree. I think a good compromise could be that if designers need to use absolute sizes for font-size, they should at least use em lengths for their line-height, so if the browser were to change the absolutely set font-sizes, the line-heights would scale accordingly. I myself am trying to avoid setting absolute sizes for my text, but bad habits die hard ;) On Sunday, April 6, 2003, at 05:57 PM, David Woolley wrote: > > A problem I'm beginning to notice is that people are using pixel > values for line-height, based on their under sized fonts. That > means that if one disables font sizes in IE, to get round the > undersized fonts (something I've had permanently set for a few months > now), the vertical spacing becomes so low as to make the text > difficult to read, or even becomes negative. You are then forced > to choose between font size and line height problems. > > I'm not sure what the user agent rules say, but I think user agents > should consider line-height to be in the same category as font-size, > when disabling the latter. Authors shouldn't, of course, use such > absolute sizes. >
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