On Saturday, April 19, 2014 01:27:12 PM Tim Dawson wrote:
> 
> I'm tempted to leave margins, padding etc. in headings as pixels and just
> change them in the media query if they become unworkable. Particularly when
> it comes to small spaces (1-10 pixels, say) it seems very fiddly to deal
> with several decimal places of ems (which probably convert to sub-pixel
> dimensions).
> 
> What do others do ?

This is a terrific use for "rem."  ems are always the font size, so as the font 
size 
increases, so does the size of an em.  However, a rem is the font-size on the 
root element (<html>), which means that it doesn't change size throughout the 
page.

---Tim


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