I have changed it to -2em. I have been experimenting. I think it looks better set to -1em, but I won't change it unless I get a chorus of "Oh yeah, -1em does look better."
I have committed the change. It might require a manual invocation of the website generation script to make it take effect on the currently served pages, of which I do not have access to initiate. ...Todd On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Phillip Carroll <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't have a Mac, but I know Firefox, Chrome and Opera are among the most > popular browsers for the Mac. The rendering engine for these will be the > same whether PC or Mac. Can't really speak for the Mac buit-in browser, > Safari. > > I tried the -2m change in Opera (on Win7), using Opera's built-in Dragonfly > web developer tool. (Almost identical to Firebug) That change provides the > same alignment as Firefox and Chrome. > > I can say with some authority that the rendering rules for this tag sequence > should work the same in all modern browsers, including any recent IE > version. The only browsers I can think of that might render it crappy are > ancient IE versions like IE6 and earlier, which used a weirdo box model. > And, if it even there if it looks crappy, I guarantee it would not look any > worse than leaving it at -180px. > > I agree that the -180px was intended to be -18px, (an easy typo to make) but > pixels will never align precisely with ems. > > > On 11/5/2014 2:16 PM, Todd Lyons wrote: >> >> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Phillip Carroll >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I used ems because most of the horizontal positioning in the chapter css >>> is >>> specified in ems units (a generally preferred unit anyway). >> >> >> Agree, the rest of that css seems to be standardized on ems. >> >>> Negative 2ems aligns it with the <dd> tag of the containing <dl>, which >>> seems a reasonable thing to do. >> >> >> It looks very good with "-2em". It renders the same in Chrome. Can >> anybody see how it looks in a recent IE? And in whatever Mac uses for >> their browser? >> >> ...Todd >> > -- The total budget at all receivers for solving senders' problems is $0. If you want them to accept your mail and manage it the way you want, send it the way the spec says to. --John Levine -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
