HTML and CSS Standards

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Graphics industry people think in terms of points, but points are alien to computer monitors, which measure size in pixels. There are pixels between points because 4 pixels correspond to 3 points. Thus any point specification will be rounded (Opera truncates) to the nearest pixel. The default size is 16 pixels or 12 points. (FireFox under Mac OS X seems to have found a way to squeeze points between pixels—though it might involve the monitor granularity instead.)

These size specifications are not resizable in some browsers (MSIE) and thus are a problem for people with vision problems who wish to resize the type in the browser. It is preferable to use resizable type as demonstrated on other pages in this set