Jesper Brunholm wrote: >I'll definitely second Georg here, em scaling is best when used to keep >content inside the window on at least one axis (and, just for "tradition >keeps the customer"'s sake - make that the horizontal axis :-) ) > >
I'm sorry, but I don't understand how em-based widths have anything to do with preventing horizontal scrollbars. It seems as if you and Georg want the following conditions to be met: 1. Text scales with the user's preferences. 2. All content fits horizontally on the page. #1 is accomplished by setting font sizes in a relative unit. #2 is accomplished by setting the width of a container in a percentage. So what do either of your goals have to do with em-based design? The point of using ems is: 3. To keep proportions of page elements the same so that line lengths remain the same (to keep them readable). But #3 is in direct conflict with #2. There's nothing wrong with this -- you just have different goals than Al. There are very probably designs where #2 is a more useful goal than #3, and very probably designs were #3 is a more useful goal than #2. I won't get into what my goals are in general -- that's irrelevant -- but I will say that I agree completely with Al's point: you completely defeat the purpose of using ems for widths if #2 is one of your goals. Again, there's nothing wrong with goal #2, but it has nothing to do with ems. Zoe -- Zoe M. Gillenwater Design Services Manager UNC Highway Safety Research Center http://www.hsrc.unc.edu ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
