- From: Jens Müller <jens@unfaehig.de>
- Date: 13 Nov 2001 23:14:17 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
"David Balch" <david.balch@fassoc.co.uk> writes: > A client of mine has had complaints that the site I designed for him is > illegible when the IE text-size is set to anything less than "medium" (we > use "font-size : 0.7em;"). I've made him aware that this is because the site > is css-ed so people can increase text size if they need to. You use 0.7em everywhere? Why? > He wants the minimum size to be set at medium - no smaller, but we still > want people to be able to scale-up. At first I though "!important", but that > will stop increasing the size, unless the users have set their own > stylesheet. Am I right in thinking that it isn't possible? > > I was also surprised at people browsing at "small" - anyone heard of that > being common? Yes, why not? Maybe they want the text displayed with the size that would be your 0.7em if their setting was medium? What I mean is: If you have reasons to use 0.7em, they may have reasons to use small.
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