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Originally Posted by Easywebdev
Sorry Webnauts, the topic was made sticky and I did not notice it move.
Now onto the great text size debate :)
No you did not get me wrong. I do use pixel sizes. When you say to use percent or em then you have to consider what that is a percentage of or how big the m actually is, the base text size needs to be defined somewhere either as pt, px or the browser default text size.
I find using pixel sizes gives me the best results across multi platforms and browsers. As I said above pixels are relative to the users screen. Specifying pt is going to leave you with large text on one platform and miniscule text on another.
So for me with the average user using a screen resolution of 800x600 - 1024x768 a base font size of 12px is what I will be sticking to.
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I also use as a base font size equivalent to 12 px on my web site too. But not pixels, rather percents or ems.
What do you mean about average users? Do you mean excluding older users, or users with visual impairments, as i.e with low vision? If you are using pixels and the user is with IE, how can he resize your fonts? So where do you see the best results accross multi-platforms and browsers?
Can you be more specific here?