Good afternoon Gunlaug, It was foretold that on 26/10/2008 @ 19:45:47 GMT+0100 (which was 16:45:47 where I live) Gunlaug Sørtun would write:
<snipped a bit> > - A width (min/max/whatever) in '%' on the outer container is relative > to body-width/window-width, and that's not a constant since every single > end-user on earth can decide on their own screen width and > browser-window width. > - A width (min/max/whatever) in 'em' on the outer container is relative > to actual font-size in each end-user's browser. I see..... learning something new every day :-) > The reason your layout could take both window-width and font-size into > account, is that 'width' is in '%' and 'min/max' are in 'em'. I call > that "conditional elastic", and it'll make the most out of available > software, hardware and user-preferences for all end-users. > Changing units turns it into "something else", that may not fit well > anywhere. > Advice: leave it as it was before. Advice that i will follow to the letter :-) > No doubt you can find values that work on default-settings at your end, > but try font-resizing on those percentages. No adjustment of > layout-width to font-size anymore. You're absolutely right. > The ie-expression works totally independent of any regular min/max > declarations - IE6 doesn't understand those "regulars" anyway and other > browsers don't understand ie-expressions. The expression also overrides > 'width', and you don't have to tell other browsers what IE6 uses either. > Advice: leave the ie-expression as is. Will do :-) -- Best regards, Luc _________________________ Using the best e-mail client: The Bat! version 4.0.18 with Windows XP (build 2600), version 5.1 Service Pack 2 and using the best browser: Opera. "The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labour." - Wernher Von Braun. ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
