- From: Todd Fahrner <fahrner@pobox.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 22:24:04 -0700
- To: Susan Lesch <lesch@macvirus.com>, www-style@w3.org
At 9:09 PM -0700 9/2/99, Susan Lesch wrote:
>Text drawn in the copyright class in the W3C WD stylesheet [1] is illegible
>from a Macintosh, in MSIE or Netscape with default settings. This is easy
>to see from any Mac in the XHTML Extended Forms draft [2].
>
>The culprit is the following line.
[snip]
>
> P.copyright { font-size: smaller }
While it is true that there is currently no good way to suggest
smaller fonts in a WAI-conscious manner for any shipping Mac UA, I
would hardly lay blame on W3C CSS authors for this. Instead, I would
petition UA developers to implement the CSS keyword system in a
thoughtful fashion, computing a different table of font size keyword
values depending on the pixels-per-em of the user's preferred
"medium" font. When the user's "medium" is the historical MacOS
default of 12 pixels (=points), then the only possible means of
representing the smaller keywords distinctly and legibly is as
follows:
medium: 12px
small: 11px
x-small: 10px
xx-small: 9px <--minimum legible size
Note that the scaling interval here is considerably less than the
CSS2-suggested 1.2/.83 value.
More on this:
http://style.verso.com/font_size_intervals/altintervals.html
Received on Friday, 3 September 1999 01:25:37 UTC