[Wikipedia-l] the default font size on Chinese Wikipedia

Fri Jun 4 00:34:07 UTC 2004

Gabriel Wicke wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 20:48 +0800, yuanml wrote:
> 
>>Hi, everybody, I'm an administrator in Chinese Wikipedia - User:Mountain.
>>
>>I have a request: Who can help us to change the default font size on Chinese Wikipedia.
>> 
>>Now the default font size on Chinese Wikipedia is too small, many users required us to change it.
>>we can change the default css to that:
>>
>>body, #globalWrapper { font-size:11pt }
>>
>>It looks better for most users.
> 
> 
> Please don't use this rule as it would prevent the entire skin from
> scaling with the user's browser font size.
> 
> I'd propose something like #globalWrapper { font-size:130%; } instead.
> 
Of course only in Explorer.

But yea, the percentage (or em-based sizing) can help (unless applied to 
elements that can often nest, such as td :P)