As you may or may not have noticed, I’ve fiddled a bit with the font sizing on my weblog (and linked to an external style sheet in the process). But why?

In short, Internet Explorer and a number of other browsers will not resize text to users’ preferences when font sizes have been explicitly specified by a site designer. (Mozilla, naturally, does not exhibit this behavior.) Suffice it to say, this often leads to issues of inaccessibility. Ever tried to zoom in on a page whose content was entirely in 8-point type and found that your size settings had no effect? That’s the exact reason I’ve tweaked my style sheet.