Given a style: #foo { width: 10em; height: 10em; } The corresponding element will render its width as 10em for all font-sizes that compute out to >=1px, but as 10px for all font-sizes that compute out to <1px. If the font-size is set to 10px, the element foo renders to be 100px wide/high, etc. but if font size is set to 0.5px, the element remains at 10px wide/high. However fonts themselves are rendered appropriately.
Currently WebKit enforces a minimum font size of 1.
The bug is related to bug 11004