On 2007/02/16 07:04 (GMT-0800) Craig Cook apparently typed: > On 2007/02/16, jeffrey morin wrote:
>> i remember reading somewhere that you can control font size easier if you Remember too that the more you attempt to "control" font size, the more likely you'll be creating accessibility and usability problems for visitors whose idea of appropriate font-size differs from your own. The more you try to control, the more vigorously you'll need to test, and the more likely your testing will show breakage. >> set 1em = 65%? i don't recall exactly what the number was and i can't find >> where i read it. i want to say it was andy budd but does anyone know what i >> am talking about and why that is useful? any help would be great > You're looking for 62.5%. Based on the cross-browser de-facto standard > of 16px for "medium", a base font-size of 62.5% will give you an em of > 10px, a nice round number. This means 1em = 10px, 1.4em = 13px, 32em = > 320px, and so on. It's also extremely useful for elastic layouts. Or you could just forget about px and work with em. Em and % work nicely with ordinary decimals. Converting to px just gets in the way of clean thought and functionally flexible design. No px used for sizing anything on this example page: http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/Sites/dlviolin.html The times have been changing. DPI has been increasing as resolution has been increasing. Outside your own development environment, it's not reasonable to assume anything regarding px sizes. However it remains perfectly reasonable, as well as eminently respectful, to assume 1em is a size reasonable for the user. http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/bigdefaults.html > The 62.5% number was entered into the annals of CSS history by Richard > Rutter in his 2004 post, "How to size text using ems," > http://www.clagnut.com/blog/348/ Before getting carried away with the putative greatness of that disaster I suggest checking out the first clause of the second sentence of the first paragraph of the section "visitor's experience" (and the bulk of the material that precedes it) on http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_1_03_04.html and then vigorously test as that author suggests. -- "If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us." 1 John 1:8 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
