I'm asking this question to help me design my own web pages.

BAUT sets the font size to something smaller than the browser's
default "medium" size. Google search results and Google Groups,
among many others, also use a font size smaller than the browser
default. I have no problem with that, but can anyone explain
why it is done, and why I haven't seen any complaints about it
from the HTML police? They always said to let the user decide
what font size to use. I'm wondering: If BAUT and Google can
get away with controlling the font size, why shouldn't I do the
same on my own pages?

I don't want to control it as tightly as BAUT does, though:
BAUT doesn't let users change the size of most text at all!
Why? I would simply change the base size, and the user could
still adjust the actual displayed size as needed.

-- Jeff, in Minneapolis

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