Re: [css-d] Automatically scaling fonts

2006-09-08 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Pete Home wrote: Is there a way to scale the font size as the window size increases? I am working on an elastic layout that works fin when the browser window is increased and reduced, however, the fonts do not increase or decrease in size so I end up with blank space when the window size

Re: [css-d] Automatically scaling fonts

2006-09-08 Thread francky
Pete Home wrote: Is there a way to scale the font size as the window size increases? I am working on an elastic layout that works fin when the browser window is increased and reduced, however, the fonts do not increase or decrease in size so I end up with blank space when the window size is big

Re: [css-d] Automatically scaling fonts

2006-09-08 Thread francky
Pete Home wrote: Thanks Francky, In design terms allowing the user to resize fonts can throw out your design and cause scroll bars etc to change your layout. I understand that this is a requirement especially for accessibility reasons. However, certain things are different. Take this for

Re: [css-d] Automatically scaling fonts

2006-09-08 Thread Felix Miata
On 06/09/08 06:53 (GMT+0100) Pete Home apparently typed: Is there a way to scale the font size as the window size increases? I am working on an elastic layout that works fin when the browser window is increased and reduced, however, the fonts do not increase or decrease in size so I end up

Re: [css-d] Automatically scaling fonts

2006-09-08 Thread Pete Home
with CSS and if I have to I'll look into scripting something. Regards Pete -Original Message- From: francky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 September 2006 11:46 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] Automatically scaling fonts Pete Home wrote

Re: [css-d] Automatically scaling fonts

2006-09-08 Thread cj
forgive me if i'm missing something, but if you want the nav bar to stay the right size for the words inside it, what's wrong with setting the nav width in em? a personal opinion: as to a site increasing my font size when i resize my window... i would never visit that size twice. i abhore

Re: [css-d] Automatically scaling fonts

2006-09-08 Thread Bradley Wright
On the other hand, if I keep the font-size using em then the user can break the menu if they increase the size. This seems like a lose lose situation. If the entire design was specified in EMs rather than pixels, the whole design would scale. Then no one has to lose. The Yahoo! CSS Page

[css-d] Automatically scaling fonts

2006-09-07 Thread Pete Home
Is there a way to scale the font size as the window size increases? I am working on an elastic layout that works fin when the browser window is increased and reduced, however, the fonts do not increase or decrease in size so I end up with blank space when the window size is big and over-flowed