On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Kristina Floyd wrote: > Do you mean the way Nick just described using the 'show computed style' > feature of Firebug?
Yes. I keep forgetting how Firebug works and how you can find that particular feature, and other features; that's what I meant by "confusing". (I tried looking at the DOM pane, where it lists the properties of an element in the DOM tree, including the "style" property, with CSS properties under it - but with empty values, for some odd reason. As I had read Nick's message, I remembered where the feature really lies...) > Because the client takes a screenshot of the website and then compares that > to the original design, and points out an discrepancies. As I'm using Owens > method, sometimes I need to play around to get the sizes to appear as > similar as possible across the board, But the method described is based on setting body font size in % and the rest in em, which is fine by many criteria (though people may disagree on the % value), but it definitely does not give and is not meant to give any specific size. It's adjustably-sized by definition. You can of course _assume_ a basic font size of 12pt or 16px, or just _use_ such a font on a browser used for comparing things. Or - as I think you have done - you can start from some fixed font size design and try to generate a page that matches that design _if_ the browser's basic font size is 12pt. The problem here might then be in the starting point: if the initial data about the fixed sizes is inaccurate, then you just need more accurate data. The fixed design given to you should be analyzed for font size _and_ font family. If you cannot get the actual font size data but just measurements of letters, you need the font family information very much. An "a" in 12pt size in one font can be very different in size (and in shape) from an "a" in 12pt size in another font. If the font used in the fixed design is not one that can be generally expected to be available on most users' systems, you need to find a common font with comparable appearance and to estimate the difference in letter sizes. That is, you would need to compare the sizes of some typical letters in the two fonts in order to find the percentage value needed to bring the font you use to the size where it matches the fixed design. -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
