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Old 01-08-2009, 11:00 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by wallcraft View Post
This is standard for HTML, and is still true for CSS absolute-size (although for CSS "medium" is the center value of 7). See CSS 2.1, 15.7 Font size. Since the user can usually set the default font size, this does not limit MobiPocket Reader to seven sizes. However, in some cases the device/Reader has fewer than 7 font sizes available and then some of the 7 font sizes will be mapped onto the same displayed font size.
It's "standard for HTML" for HTML 3.2, which hasn't been "standard" since HTML 4.0 was published in 1997. And although CSS only defines 7 "absolute" font sizes, it's possible to use cascade rules to specify any proportion of one of those sizes as a base.

My main point with that is that it isn't possible to replicate something like The Mouse's Tale in Alice in Wonderland, which requires many, many more than 7 discrete font sizes within a single e-book.
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