On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Barney Carroll <barney.carr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Please forgive the impertinent lurker here, but could somebody weigh in with > why relative measures are necessary when the desired outcome is pixel-level > accuracy? > > >
While feeling a little 'holy war', I'll bite... It's to honor browser/user-set default font size settings. If a user has set a larger font size in their browser preferences due to less than perfect eyesight, for example, setting 100% on the HTML element and then sizing elements with relative units will respect the users need for a larger readable text size and allow the text to scale up. Why do I feel like you know this and meant something else with your question... -- Tom Livingston | Senior Front-End Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@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/
