Re: [css-d] EM based layout issue between Firefox and Safari on Mac

2008-07-10 Thread Jason Campbell
Alan, Thank you for your concern, I would point you to this link as a single example of where I am coming from. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/04/14/designing-with-grid-based-approach/ Cheers, J. On Jul 10, 2008, at 12:38 AM, Alan Gresley wrote: > Jason Campbell wrote: >>

Re: [css-d] EM based layout issue between Firefox and Safari on Mac

2008-07-09 Thread Jason Campbell
Of course, if you can accidentally change your default font setting, your visitor can deliberately change his or her default font setting, too, and upset all your design calculations. Perhaps it's better to think in terms of a 1em grid than a "10px" grid ... David Jones, Content Coordinator, Infor

Re: [css-d] EM based layout issue between Firefox and Safari on Mac

2008-07-09 Thread Jason Campbell
David, Thanks for your response, I am surprised to see the rounding you have found but only slightly, heh. The article by Georg was also interesting thanks for the link. From reading it I get the sense that he is expecting that what we are intending is that the body text remain the 10px that

Re: [css-d] EM based layout issue between Firefox and Safari on Mac

2008-07-09 Thread Jason Campbell
Thank you Bobby Jack for this one line… "(including your local configuration)" I am not sure how it happened but at some point it dropped to 14 from 16 in my local prefs. I never seem to think about factoring in the preferences, I build for what I assume is the default installation settings

[css-d] EM based layout issue between Firefox and Safari on Mac

2008-07-08 Thread Jason Campbell
I am trying to establish a foundation for an em based layout and I am seeing some discrepancies between Firefox 2 and Safari 3.1.2 on the mac that I had not noticed before. My example file I am referencing is available at http://www.jasoncampbell.com/CSS I have a simple setup here in this exa