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GahlSent: Friday, July 07, 2006 9:58 AMTo:
rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.orgSubject: Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Re:
Text sizing
A hack is nothing more than a creative solution, albeit
A hack is nothing more than a creative solution, albeit short term and subject to breaking under the changing terms of future environments. But, then you as the creative solution engineer just find the new solution, always looking for the possibility of a more long term fix but not afraid to resor
On 07/07/06, Eric Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Seems to me the 76% and em sizing solution is a hack. The person who
developed that hack took 250 screenshots to find just the right way to
achieve the results they were after. I admire the use of experimentation
but I doubt it is maintainable
Bauser, Joseph (Joe) wrote:
time. However, what about a web based application which a user may use
at work and may not be given the option of having Firefox installed on
their provided computers? (As is the case with a few of my co-workers in
the past).
I understand companies have policies abou
I'm not sure I understand this rational. It seems like the correct
method for making a font the same size across all browsers is to used a
fixed font size (px or pt). Under these situations IE is not accessible.
This to me seems like a fine situation and no additional user control
should be ne
s aren't worth diddly.
Cheers.
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Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 9:23 AM
To: rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org
Subject: [Rails-spinoffs] Re: Text sizing
Sam wrote:
> Setting the css body {font
Sam wrote:
Setting the css body {font-size: 12px} or {font-size: 12pt} will cause IE to
disable the browser's "View Text Size" control. I guess this is why
percentages are preferred over px/pt in CSS-only solutions. (Crippling the
view text-size reduces the accessibility for persons with poor v
