- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 17:17:32 -0800
- To: Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> wrote: > It might also make sense to note common exceptions. Gecko defaults to 16px > for proportional western, but 13px for monospace western on Mac and Windows, > and 12px (which seems to be inherited from antiquity, when *nix fonts were > mostly pt sized bitmaps that often lacked increments of less than 2 between > adjacent sizes) for monospace western on Linux. That's magical monospace size correction, which isn't specified and has nothing to do with the computed value of "medium". Regardless of the font used, a "font-size: medium" gives the same value, as measured by the 'em' unit. ~TJ
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