@Rev. Bob
Thanks for your hints about "<absolute-size>".
Do I understand you correctly, that you suggest that web authors should declare the value "medium" for running text instead of 1em?
I've never seen a stylesheet which uses that value. (That's not an argumente of course, just a polite statement.)
Do you know a high quality coded website which uses the value "medium" or one of the six others? Please take it as a curious question. There's no other intention in the question
