Content-Type: text/html Jacob Palme wrote: > > (3) Why use size=-1 [ ... contorted reasoning about why SIZE=-1 is a good idea elided ... ] The fact remains that when you wrap SIZE=-1 around the entire web page, you render the page unreadable to me, because you are ignoring the well-defined and proper meaning of SIZE=3. > (h) Note that almost all major web pages, like > Alta Vista, Microsoft, Apple, Netscape, Yahoo, > etc. use "size=-1", often in combination with > a non-serif font, when handling text which has > a limited line length. Are all these web > pages wrong? Yes. > Are they all made by people who > do not understand how web standards work? One can only assume so. > How would you recommend them to format their > web pages, and why? SIZE=3 is the default size. Acknowlege, move on. In fact, these people are not designing "web" pages. They are designing "MSIE on Windows" pages. The two are completely different things. -- Jamie Zawinski [log in to unmask] http://www.mozilla.org/ (work) [log in to unmask] http://www.jwz.org/ (play)