- From: B.K. DeLong <bkdelong@pobox.com>
- Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 09:19:17 -0500
- To: Francois Jordaan <Francois.Jordaan@wheel.co.uk>,w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
- Cc: "'Bailey, Bruce'" <Bruce.Bailey@ed.gov>, "John Foliot - WATS.ca" <foliot@wats.ca>
At 02:17 PM 1/5/2005 +0000, Francois Jordaan wrote: > > > The W3C has specified 16px/96ppi > > > > Okay, but 11px/16px is 0.6875 not .76. > > If B.K. meant 11pt (and not 11px) the base font size should > > be about 0.92 em. > > > > Francois, is .76 fairly arbitrary or did you calculate it > > somehow? (If the latter, please provide the math.) > >I agree this has become very off-topic, but I'm replying to the list in >order to correct some errors in my earlier email. > >Indeed, .76em normally renders as 12px, and not 11px as I said. I would love to take all our font sizes in http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/style/core.css and convert them to ems. The problem I run into is inheritance and nesting. Often times out WYSIWYG editor in our CMS will nest several bodycopy <span> elements and just make the font size smaller and smaller, were it ems. I'd love to figure out how to keep that from happening. Any suggestions? -- B.K. DeLong bkdelong@pobox.com +1.617.797.2472 http://bkdelong.mit.edu Work. http://www.brain-stream.com Play. http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org Potter. http://www.city-of-doors.com Sigil. http://www.hackerfoundation.org Future. http://www.osvdb.org/ Security. http://www.wkdelong.org Son. PGP Fingerprint: 38D4 D4D4 5819 8667 DFD5 A62D AF61 15FF 297D 67FE FOAF: http://foaf.brain-stream.org
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