- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 01:45:58 +0200 (EET)
- To: www-style@w3.org
On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, J.Jeka wrote: > I have some (little) problems with CSS 2.1 CR. I'm afraid the problems are not that small. > 1. Recomended line-height This is a long and sad story. CSS specifications, drafts, and "errata" have presented different recommendations and examples on this, sometimes even with internal contradictions. All this should be omitted. There's no compelling reason to make any suggestions on this, any more than the specifications make recommendations on default font family. It would have been useful if specifications had consistently recommended a reasonable default value, like 1.3, and browsers had implemented this. But it's too late now. It probably won't be changed, so just ignore anything the spec says about specific line-height values. > But what all popular UAs use is line-height: 1.2 -isn't it? Roughly so. You can check their browser style sheets to make sure. (Just kidding. The accuracy of browser documentation reflects the value of recommendations on default browser style sheets pretty well, I'm afraid.) > 2. Recomended font-size of headings, scaling factors for font-size A very similar case. In practice, you have to study actual browser behavior to get useful information, and for your own style sheet design, you should simply write suggested font sizes for headings, expecting strange defaults. The CSS recommendations and proposals just obscure the situation. -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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