Felix Miata wrote:
> That 62.5% hocus pocus CSS is for designers who think px are more
> important than visitor respect and content fluidity. It originated and
> is explained here: http://www.clagnut.com/blog/348/
>
It's also broken on IE-Win, which ignores the decimal fraction of
percentages on the font-size. Thus it treats the above as
font-size: 62%;
giving a font-size of 9.92px. If you then try to specify the dimensions
of something in ems, it comes out smaller on IE than everything else.
For example,
width: 40em;
will give a width of 400px on FF, Opera, Safari etc. (assuming default
font size settings), but of 396px on IE. This can be the cause of much
frustration when creating em-based layouts.
I'm planning to write this up in detail (as workarounds can fall foul of
a user's minimum font size if one doesn't take them into account) but
for the moment I've got a demo here:
<http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/bugs/browsers/css/IE-Win/ie_percent_test.html>
HTH,
Nick.
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Nick Fitzsimons
http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/
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