- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 15:44:50 -0500 (EST)
- To: Irene Vatton <Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr>
- cc: <matthew@winwriters.com>, <ceffyl@icx.net>, <www-amaya-doc@w3.org>
At the top level, it means a percentage of the user's default font size. (Although at the top level the percentage should be 100%, so it is unnecessary). cheers Charles On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Irene Vatton wrote: > On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Irene Vatton wrote: > > - Personally I prefer to have the body size expressed in an absolute value > (pt) and > other sizes expressed in percentages. > > This runs against the W3C Recommendation Web Content Accessibility Guidelines > checkpoint 3.4 Use relative rather than absolute units in markup language > attribute values and style sheet property values. > > So I prefer to have all sizes expressed in percentages or em units (except > images, of course). What is the meaning of a percentage at the top level? -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles phone: +61 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI fax: +1 617 258 5999 Location: 21 Mitchell street FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia (or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France)
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