At 8:35 Uhr +0100 16.01.2003, David wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Why don't you just do it? Note that the website uses a mix of CSS and old fashioned styles in order to render on more browsers similarly. We might decide to convert it to a pure CSS site one of these day (I'd be all for it).
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Hello guys.
Inoticed that we use "pt" to determine which font size to display. That might be problematic on some operating systems since point size is not something that renders at the same resolution on all screens across all platforms. It would be better to use pica,ems or exs.
BTW, last time I checked pica was an absolute measure, too, and dependenent on the screen resolution just like cm, mm and pt.
I know this is nit picking and therefore I am asking if we wish to pay attention to this at all. I could easily change that although we might see some very minor changes in the size of the rendering in the future then, since pica, ems or exs do not match up 100% to the pt rendering.Note that cm/mm/pica suffer from the same problem as pt.
Now when redefining <pre> we use px as a size denominator for padding and margin. That is something we really should consider changing. Pixel rendering is dependant on the screen resolution and the screen depth which can lead to bad inconsistencies. An absolute size adjustment like cm or mm might be a good choice here.
I don't think px sizing is that bad, in fact if you want a fixed layout, it's the only way to do it. The relative sizes (em/ex) should work "better" when the clients browsers substitutes different fonts, but this is not an automatic feature, it has to be carefully developed and tested, too.
Max
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