Just a little comment: usually I will put the font-size: 62.5% on the body element instead of the HTML element. Doing it this way I've never had an issue, even in IE (back to at least 5.5). Placing it on the HTML element seems a bit goofy to me since the HTML element can never have font anyways.

Brett Patterson wrote:
I have always been told to use something along the lines of either body { font-size: 100%; /* a fix for internet explorer */ } because of the way IE reads/sizes font. Starting out with html at only 62.5% font-sizing would completely mess up IE and the font in the browser would it not?

--
Brett P.


On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 7:56 PM, CK <jobs....@bushidodeep.com <mailto:jobs....@bushidodeep.com>> wrote:

    Hi,

    Would you elaborate on why the CSS rule invalidates the article?
    As it appears the authors explanation is sound.


        html {
                 font-size: 62.5%;
               }



    CK



    On Apr 23, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:

        On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Christopher Kennon wrote:

            S,

            See this article from "Links for light Reading" scrolling
            down a bit you'll
            find a JS solution that may prove useful:

            Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design
            <http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/169/
            <http://www.betaversion.org/%7Estefano/linotype/news/169/>>


         That article ceased to be credible as soon as I saw:

            "My suggestion for you is to do the following: start your CSS
             stylesheet with

               html {
                 font-size: 62.5%;
               }
        "


            On Apr 22, 2009, at 4:18 PM, Stevio wrote:

                Is the box model in IE7 still messed up? I thought
                they sorted it?


         It is fixed in standards mode, but I think it uses the broken
        model
         in quirks mode.

                I am floating a div to the right with a width of 50%.
                The div to the left
                has a right margin of 50%. I've put a 1px solid border
                on both of them. In
                IE7 there is a gap between them but in Firefox they
                are right against each
                other.

                Go figure?


-- Chris F.A. Johnson, webmaster <http://woodbine-gerrard.com>
         ===================================================================
         Author:
         Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005,
        Apress)


        *******************************************************************
        List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm
        Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm
        Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org
        <mailto:memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org>
        *******************************************************************




    *******************************************************************
    List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm
    Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm
    Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org
    <mailto:memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org>
    *******************************************************************



*******************************************************************
List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm
Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm
Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org
*******************************************************************


--
Christian Snodgrass
CEO - Azure Ronin
http://www.arwebdesign.net
http://www.htmlblox.com
Phone: 859.816.7955



*******************************************************************
List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm
Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm
Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org
*******************************************************************

Reply via email to