Not disputing the guy's percentage choices per se, but I am uneasy about the entire concept behind this. He calls it a quick and dirty CSS hack. I'm not sure what to think. Is this a brilliant workaround that isn't widely considered, or is it a train wreck waiting to break our designs?
From what I can tell, reading the article, he was suggesting that browser manufacturers could implement a system whereby fonts could be individually targeted with sizes, and this was simply one example of how it could work - it was not intended as an example that could currently be used.
Yuppers, Paul, font-size-adjust is the central issue of this thinking process. I agree with Stevie also, I can’t see this alone as being workable in current CSS, though I do believe that the article suggested this as a CSS “hack.”
The best solution would be (and forgive us if this already exists, we couldn’t find it) to give a percentage height to each font, so instead of a CSS segment that used to look like
It’s supposed to be intertwined if I remember correctly with the font family property, something like a shorthand :).
Though the question I’m wondering is, if using hte percentages will fix vista, won’t it screw up others since vista has a problem with smaller font sizes?