Re: Correct specification of fonts

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

Maybe not using pixels or points but the non-specific sizes that CSS 
provides is somewhat "cleaner" 
(http://www.eskimo.com/%7Ebloo/indexdot/css/properties/font/fontsize.htm).

Of course, it is still a question if we should use "medium", "small", or 
"x-small". In my personal experience, many developing only for Windows 
are using "xx-small" but that is completely unreadable on Linux with 
default settings. "x-small" or "small" are readable though.
"medium" is probably too big.


Christian



Fred Oliveira (aka kript0n) wrote:

> > Aren't cascading stylesheets used for fonts, colors, etc, stored in a
> > separate file ?
> > Shouldn't use <font>  tag at all, only CSS.
>
> Of course we should use CSS. But thats not actually the point at this
> moment. The point is choosing an acceptable font that displays nicely on
> every OS and browser. So don't actually worry much about <font> tags
> because they probably won't exist.