Re: [css-fonts] Specify that the default "medium" font-size should by 16px?

Tab Atkins wrote:

> It's obvious from inspection that every browser defaults to 16px
> font size, so it hasn't been a big deal that it's not
> standardized.  That doesn't excuse us from standardizing it,
> though - the entire *point* of standardization is to allow new
> browsers to enter the market without having to do a bunch of
> reverse-engineering themselves.

While this is generally true, it's not true in all cases. Firefox,
for example, sets the default size based on the locale. For some CJK
locales, it's set to 15px instead of 16px.  For some locales I could
definitely imagine defaults other 16px making more sense.  So I
don't think standardizing on "should" makes sense, although a note
saying that the font size generally defaults to 16px would be fine.

Cheers,

John Daggett

Received on Monday, 20 January 2014 08:12:47 UTC