Re: work in progress, please critique

Beauregard T. Shagnasty:

> I see in your stylesheet:
> 
> body {
>   color: #333333;   <--- a shade of grey,  #000 is black

It's about 95% black, changing it I can barely tell the difference except 
that pure black is too stark. I wouldn't call it "low contrast" by any 
stretch of the imagination. I'm fine with it.

>   font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
>   font-size: 90%;   <--- 10% less than everyone's chosen default

I thought I had taken that out. My mistake.

> #r_col {
>   font-size: 80%;   <--- which is 80% of 90%
> 
> and because I don't have Verdana, I see a substitute font that is not as
> large as Verdana, so it looks even smaller.
> 
> My own site looks fine to me.  <shrug>

I changed all fonts to 100%, in IE they are now much bigger but it made 
almost no difference in Firefox. IE text is set to medium, Firefox is set 
to normal.

It must come down to a difference in browsers & operating systems.