2009/3/15 Gunlaug Sørtun <gunla...@c2i.net>: > Ib Jensen wrote: > My viewport / screen is 3840pixel wide on one machine, but it is > 1280pixel wide on another machine and 1440pixel wide on yet another.
Kind a the same problem here: I'm developing on a 19" widescreen, resolution unknown for the moment. I'm writing this, looking for tips and tricks and seing my own and other sites on a 22" widescreen. > You have to decide if the 100% starting-width is 800, 1024, 1280, > 1600pixel or something else, since you can't convert percentages into > 'em' directly for anything but font-size and line-height. Now you are forcing me do something quit new to me, taking descissions. Problably because I want to much at the same time. But I assume that the mostly used monitor-size is either a 17" or 19" screen, then it should be something around 800 or 1024px. > If your 100% starting-width is 800pixel, then "800/16='em'" will hit > right as long as we're dealing with the default font-size for 96dpi. > If browsers correct correctly for resolution, then it'll still be > correct (in a manner of speaking) for other resolutions. > > Problem is: browsers are not very good at the "various resolution" game > yet, so you may get more than one actual width as result on higher > resolutions - depending on browser. > > Hope that came through a bit clearer. I think. That means roughly, that a "developer" should have at least three screens with different resolutions and X number of browsers installed, on different systems, to in fact have a chance to guess which size of units to use. -- Regards / Mhv. Ib K. jensen - http://ikjensen.dk ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] 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/
