At 10:51 PM 2/17/2009 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > > ...have nothing to do with the "Golden Section", and to me would look > >I have to wonder if more than a tiny fraction of professional web designers >know that that is. Probably far fewer of the zillion hack designers or the >junkware they use to create would.
Well, for those here who don't know what the Golden Section is, if it's any consolation I haven't got a clue what people are talking about here on this list half the time either! ;) With the assumption that you know what I'm referring to, though, you subsequent points do bring up a whole other can of worms for me... >All rendering engines round nominal font sizes to whole numbers of px, but >not all browsers use equivalent rounding methods. IE, the dominant overall >representative, truncates every computed px size to a whole number, while >some popular other browsers use something resembling the mathematical >rounding most of us learned when we graduated from simple fractions to >decimals in school. This is actually very frustrating to me (now). For all these many past years, I've had my base font size set at 14px -- this was, for the longest time, the recommended size (in px) for general readability. Since being on this list, I've learned that this recommendation is no longer valid, and percentages (specifically 100% for one's base font) are the recommended way to go instead of px. However, when I was doing my font sizing using px, I could very easily size my text, headings, etc. with specific whole, rounded numbers (9px, 14px, 23px, 37px, etc.) no problem at all, but from what you've pointed out, if I start doing things using the far more vague percentages values, then things will simply not quite look as I might expect/hope from one platform/browser to another. So this is all rather ironic: in order to get things to look right, I have to do them in the wrong way (using px), but in order to do them in the right way (using %), then I'll never be sure that it actually looks right (in fact, I'm virtually guaranteed that things will look wrong for some people). Arrrrrgh...! Ron :/ Woof?... http://www.Psymon.com Ach, du Leni!... http://www.Riefenstahl.org Hmm... http://www.Imaginary-Friend.ca ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] 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/
