Re: [WSG] Building with scaling in mind

2005-01-28 Thread Paul Connolley
On 28 Jan 2005, at 00:22, Paul Novitski wrote: At 01:30 PM 1/27/2005, Tom Livingston wrote: I was admiring stopdesign.com. I think it's a beautiful layout. But I am having a problem wrapping my head around the concept behind building a page like that so that when text is scaled, the containers

[WSG] Building with scaling in mind

2005-01-27 Thread Tom Livingston
Hi all, General question for all you seasoned CSS gurus. I was admiring stopdesign.com. I think it's a beautiful layout. But I am having a problem wrapping my head around the concept behind building a page like that so that when text is scaled, the containers don't get all messed up. On

Re: [WSG] Building with scaling in mind

2005-01-27 Thread Terrence Wood
without looking at Doug's CSS I'd say he is using a fixed width design with heights in ems (if declared), the rest of it is fantastic use of floats. A discussion on ems can be found at ccs-d: http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=UsingEms Doug is a master designer and he is pretty generous in

Re: [WSG] Building with scaling in mind

2005-01-27 Thread Paul Novitski
At 01:30 PM 1/27/2005, Tom Livingston wrote: I was admiring stopdesign.com. I think it's a beautiful layout. But I am having a problem wrapping my head around the concept behind building a page like that so that when text is scaled, the containers don't get all messed up. On stopdesign.com, the