On Mon, 28 May 2007, Lori Lay wrote: > I don't think you can rely on the size of elements dimensioned in ex units. > Eric says in his book that many user agents get their value for ex by taking > the value of em and dividing it in half.
Most browsers do that, and it pretty much defeats the idea of ex, but Firefox 2 has an adequate implementation of ex _and_ it supports font-size-adjust, making the unit and the property practically important to some extent. Using the ex unit, you naturally need to be prepared to having it interpreted as 0.5em. > Also, would monitor resolutions or dot pitch have any impact on your > calculations? Since you are taking a ratio, I wouldn't think so, but I > wonder... They affect the estimates, but not very much when a very large font size is used. -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- 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/
