On Jun 4, 2004, at 7:33 PM, Patrick Lauke wrote:
The only way around it that I can think of is to do the calculation of padding/margin based on your font size by hand.
In my example it's pretty straight forward. In the real world with inheritance, it is often prohibitively expensive to figure out just what the correct compensation is for each element. Automatic calculation and compensation by a RAD tool would be great.
On Jun 5, 2004, at 3:13 AM, Lea de Groot wrote:
If you want a consistently absolutely-sized block, then you'll need to use a fixed size font-size unit (errr...) such as px.
I was being a bit loose with my words. I want sizing to be relative to the users font size setting (e.g. if they have their font size set for twice the default, I want my layout to be 2X what it would be at the default setting – screen real estate permitting), but not relative to my font size setting in that particular block element.
In other words if the user wants smaller or larger text I want my design to adjust to match, but I don't want the design (i.e. margins, widths, etc.) to be 50% larger in the places where my text is 50% larger.
Bill McAvinney
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