2009/3/15 Gunlaug Sørtun <gunla...@c2i.net>:
> Ib Jensen wrote:
>

> First: get the terms, and sizes, right.
>
> Resolution is somewhere between 72 and 300dpi and most viewports/screens
> are between 640 and 3600px wide. Resolution vs pixel-width affect actual
> screen size, so a 2400px wide screen with 220dpi resolution (not many of
> those around, but they're coming) will be physically quite small in
> size. So, forget about 15", 17", 19" and so on for screens. A screen is
> so and so many screen-pixels wide and tall, regardless of its actual size.

Uuuuuuuups.

Something that I have completely misunderstood.
Thats problably why I sometimes have problems getting the right size
of the layout i working with locally.


>'em' is locked to font-size, so 'em' is in most cases only useful for
>setting limits - min-width and/or max-width, and those limits should be
>quite generous.
>'px' is also locked, so they're also most useful for setting generous
>limits.

By this, you mean that, how should I write it:

A fluid / Elacstic layout:

"The skeleton" of a layout in %
Font-size in % or em

A fixed layout:

"The skeleton" of a layout in em or px
Font-size in em or px


-- 
Regards / Mhv.
Ib K. jensen - http://ikjensen.dk
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