Sunday, November 14, 2004, 6:01:52 PM, Mordechai wrote:
While pt's are fine for the print media type, when using the screen (by
far the most commonly used media with CSS) pixels (px) essentially
replace points.
When you use points, the system has a chance to compensate for the
screen
Sunday, November 14, 2004, 8:02:50 PM, Patrick wrote:
In my experience IE doesn't resize ems consistently. I've come to use %
for the base (on the html), then em (on the body)
Eh? That makes no sense to me. Body is a child of html.
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Iain
Sunday, November 14, 2004, 8:28:45 PM, Patrick wrote:
it seems that ems and percentages are
interchangeable
Indeed. Unless you define a unit, I think the base unit is 1em.
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Iain
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Barring browser weirdness for a brief utopian moment, is this the way it is
supposed to work.?
In order for any text to appear, someone somewhere has to have chosen a
font face and size. So choosing to use relative rather than absolute units
for font size moves where the decision occurs.
If
