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
CSS gets overridden the lower you get. So if you have a style on the body and a style on an element, then element level will override the body level. If you are interest in this sort of stuff, I highly suggest firebug on FF, best web dev tool out there for CSS/JS.
Default config of FF3 on Vista is 16pt Times New Roman.
Like I said before though, if you are going for a fixed size, you should be using px, exactly for this reason. If you are going for a relative size, 81% is just silly, because you are deliberately saying "Make this smaller then what the user set as an ideal font size."
I'm not at all sure that this can be blamed on FreeType.
I'm not saying it is all freetypes fault. I have just noticed that reading MSDN stuff in particular on a default linux install is pretty much illegible, which is why I mentioned it.