"Stewart Gordon" <smjg_1...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:ji31ut$172j$1...@digitalmars.com... > On 21/02/2012 11:43, James Miller wrote: > <snip> >> Its more, if you are using a font with a massive difference in size, >> then obviously things aren't going to look right. However, if a >> website require pixel-perfect rendering, then it isn't going to work >> anyway once it hits a platform that isn't the one the designer works >> on. I'm not advocating that websites should be rigid, more that >> complaining that the site doesn't work under /your/ specific settings >> is really not fair to the developer. > > Exactly. FWIW read this: > http://web.archive.org/web/20031231151206/http://allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?Fix_the_wrong_problem >
OMG, I *LOVE* that page!!! > <snip> >>> I completely agree. And it's hell for you when you're forced to support >>> IE because >>> more than 50% of the customers use IE. > <snip> > > Indeed, if only M$ would retire IE the web would be a much better place. > Meh, that would just mean all the millions of people who don't know what a "browser" is would just keep using the final version of IE. Actually, one could argue MS more or less tried retiring it at IE6, and that's exactly how it turned out.