You know, if you use a user style sheet with !important you can keep your precious font sizes just the way you want them.
The rest of us want a webpage that is pleasing to look at.
The rest of us want a webpage that is pleasing to look at.
The default font size is pleasing to look at, that's why it's the default size. You kids need to get over the idea that everyone loves squinting at tiny fonts, they don't.
If a website is properly designed, it should scale just fine no matter what the font size is. If you need a fixed pixel size for a font to make your design work, you're doing it wrong. And to top it off, a fixed pixel size requirement means it'll break anyways on different systems with different fonts, kerning and hinting options, and other settings.b
When you get right down to it, by the time you've accounted for every little preference you're asking websites to be text files, which kinda defeats the whole purpose of design.