- From: John Foliot - WATS.ca <foliot@wats.ca>
- Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 14:00:17 -0500
- To: "'Bailey, Bruce'" <Bruce.Bailey@ed.gov>, "'Francois Jordaan'" <Francois.Jordaan@wheel.co.uk>, "'B.K. DeLong'" <bkdelong@pobox.com>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Bailey, Bruce [Bruce.Bailey@ed.gov] wrote: >> Use .76em instead of 11px to get the same result, but resizable. > > I have seen conversions like 1em==12pt and 1em==16px. > http://doubletype.sourceforge.net/?about%20em The W3C has specified 16px/96ppi as a standard default text size, and most modern browsers on the Macintosh and Windows platforms have honored that specification since 2000. (See the W3C CSS1 Specifications at www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-CSS1-19990111#length-units plus the Errata Notice correcting the original CSS1 spec. www.w3.org/Style/css1-updates/REC-CSS1-19990111-errata.html) Knowing that ems can usually be interpreted as 16 pixels opens up some interesting possibilities... (http://www.wats.ca/resources/relativesizing/20) Cheers! JF -- John Foliot foliot@wats.ca Web Accessibility Specialist / Co-founder of WATS.ca Web Accessibility Testing and Services http://www.wats.ca 1.866.932.4878 (North America)
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