Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 5th Oct 2008 15:57 UTC
There is one thing that really pushes my buttons, one thing that is sure to send me off on a rant on life, the universe, and everything. I have a 21" widescreen 1680x1050 display - which might not be large to some of the real geeks in here, but to me, it's pretty huge. With so much screen real estate, why oh why do my friends all still insist on maximising every window they come across when they sit down behind my computer? This - and more - is the subject of the latest post on Microsoft's Engineering 7 weblog.
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2006-02-05
I've actually commented on this before.
Part of the reason it looks like ass is the way linux does font rendering, and/or the default sans-serif font that is set on the system just doesn't scale down. Freetype tends to spaz on anything but the most basic of jobs.
The logic behind setting a font at 0.9em is sort of weird in the first place though. You are basically saying you are respecting that the user set a base font size, but you want to display your text at a smaller size then they want to read it at. If you want absolute sizes, you should be using px, which should look the same on all systems. em is for relative sizing. The only reason you should be going for lower then 1 is for something like a caption, or for copyright text, not for the main type size on the page.