Rowan @ Jetboy wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I'm looking to use em or ex units for elastic layout on a new site. 
> mozillaZine (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Em_vs._ex) recommends ex's to
> avoid rounding errors (in Moz), but other sites make veiled
> references to ex problems with older browsers.
> 
> Can anyone tell me what those problems are/were, and on which
> browsers?

An example can be worth a thousand words :-)

Have a look at this page across browser-land...
<http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/moa_17.html>
...especially in Moz/Fx, and do some font-resizing.

> Does anyone have any strong reasons to suggest using one unit over
> the other?

The example above provides pretty convincing reasons *not* to use "ex"
for dimensioning, IMO.

regards
        Georg
-- 
http://www.gunlaug.no
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