On 2009/05/31 18:14 (GMT-0400) snak detek+0r composed: > ....My basic instinct is to set the base at 10px, simply so i > can work in units that I'm used to. If everything is multiples of ten it > makes ems a much more intelligible unit too....
10 does seem easy on the surface, as most of us are used to using metric values by now, it's preached by the Clagnut 62.5% article and its progeny, and practiced by a lot of sites, including some biggies. However, puters aren't so happy with base 10 as with base 2. When they need to divide 10px by 3, 4 or 6, they get fractions, which the browsers typically handle not too consistently. It's not as big a problem if you use the default default font size (1em=16px) as the base. That em is evenly divisible by 2, 4, 8 & 16, so you can work in 1/4's (.25), 1/8's (.125) &/or 1/16's (.0625) and always be working in whole px. -- "A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control." Proverbs 29:11 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
