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Re: [css3-fonts] Addition of font-size: xxx-large

From: Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:54:17 -0400
Message-ID: <4F8DCA69.2000301@earthlink.net>
To: www-style@w3.org
On 2012/04/18 03:32 (GMT+0800) Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu composed:

> It seems that this discussion would benefit greatly from opinions of
> those who participated in the previous discussion that led to the
> current mapping. I am not one of such people but I think if we add
> 'xxx-large', we should probably add 'xxx-small' for consistency.

In most environments, 9px is the smallest size legible across entire charsets.

In most environments, xx-small maps to 9px.

HTML <font> never had anything that would map to xxx-small.

Adding xxx-small would do nothing useful.
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