ancient readings, refound with University of Minesota Duluth’s « Web Design References »:http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/support/Training/Online/webdesign/css.html’s help {« via »:http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=FontSize}:
* « Owen »:http://www.thenoodleincident.com/ says: « … you can make a nice ems stylesheet with P text at 1.0 em, and then downsize the whole thing by selecting size in BODY with %, like 76%. It’s simple, easy to change, and works for everything. Score 1 for late nights and coffee. » [« x »:http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/typography/index.html]
BTW, Owen’s CSS help page is « there »:http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/css/index.html#text
* « Mark »:http://diveintoaccessibility.org/ says:
« …
1. Netscape 4 displays p tags at 12px, regardless of user setting.
2. Internet Explorer 5 for Windows displays p tags at « x-small », which works out to be 12px at the default setting, but would scale larger if the user set their « Text Size » setting larger in the View menu.
3. Internet Explorer 6 for Windows displays p tags at « small », because of the « font-size: small » rule in the « body p » selector. This works out to 12px at the default setting, but would scale larger if the user set their « Text Size » setting larger.
4. Internet Explorer 5 for Mac, Opera, Netscape 6, Mozilla, and (hopefully) all future browsers will display p tags at « small », because of the « font-size: small » rule in the « html>body p » selector. This works out to 12px at the default setting, but would scale larger if the user used the « Text Zoom » feature. » [« x »:http://diveintoaccessibility.org/examples/fontsize.html]