Folks, let me propose a scenario to you and get your ideas on how useful/useless you would find it.
As you know CSS 2 allows absolute and relative font sizing. Of course relative refers to the font size of the parent element, but I've often found myself pining for the ability to use a ratio relative to the size of the parent element itself rather than the parent's font table. This is primarily because while I love the concept of liquid designs, such layouts often fail in terms of usability when long-ish text blocks run longer than the print-standard of 50-70 characters per line. A fixed width design is significantly weaked by high-res displays, which makes a forced standard line length too often too small. An em/ex-based design width is OK, but requires the user to adjust the type size manually. If one accepts this as a legitimate problem, it seems to me the most obvious solution would be to provide a method of basing the current em space not on the parent element's em space, but on a percentage of the parent element's width. If dynamic, this would change the font size based on the width of the element particular to each user, but would still allow for the user to override the page's display with their own +/- adjustments. My colleague and I have been playing with this concept, and implementation is possible and pretty straight-forward with a little Javascript, but I wonder if such stuff would be of interest to anyone else? Jared Stein Director of Learning Media Development Distance Education, Utah Valley State College, MS 149 http://www.uvsc.edu/disted/ phone: (801) 863 8929 office: Learning Center 221d ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
