On 2007/05/25 00:58 (GMT-0700) Paul Novitski apparently typed:
> In my efforts to build zoomable layouts [max-width at window width]
> I've found it convenient to declare a body font-size of 62.5%
At 5/25/2007 10:16 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
The Clagnutt 62.5% scourge or bane of user stylesheets. :-(
Felix, thanks for your lucid reply, but you apparently didn't
actually read my posting even as you quoted it. I'm talking about
creating zoomable pages and you lecture me about the disadvantages of
fixed width! Sheesh.
The reason I'm needing to convert from pixels to ems is that I'm
implementing designs mocked up as bitmapped images in Photoshop &
InDesign. The designer creates the mockup to depict the page as they
want to see it, which I interpret as the way the page should look at
normal zoom. I translate all their pixel measurements to ems so that
the page is zoomable. The arithmetic on this gets tedious, so I use
62.5% to make 1em = 10px to make my life easier. I could as easily
have set the body font-size to 6.25% so that 1 page em = 1 mockup
pixel but I thought I might break something.
The pages I craft this way are not absolutely zoomable -- I halt the
layout zoom at window width to avoid the pitfalls of horizontal
scrollbar and hidden content which I consider to be accessibility
concerns. But I want the pages to be zoomable within that constraint
to enable people to enlarge their text to the greatest extent
possible without breaking the layout (i.e. enlarging single words
beyond the width of their containers).
Regards,
Paul
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Paul Novitski
Juniper Webcraft Ltd.
http://juniperwebcraft.com
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