most of the time, I actually set html{font-size: 16px} so I can guarantee the
font size and a width of 960px.
I find that a 10px font is too small for me or most of my users to read. Every
time I tried the 62.5% thing, I was still fine using em for layouts, but the
content didn't have enough white space and was too hard to read. And when, of
course, I sized-up the font size, well…. drinking ensued as I tried to get
content to play in their containers.
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On Nov 9, 2011, at 10:42 PM, G.Sørtun wrote:
> On 10.11.2011 02:23, mem wrote:
>
>> Ok. And why will I need one in px and another in em ? I'm not getting
>> what will that do, should that have the same measures like: 960px and
>> 60em ?
>
> 60em may be somewhat equal to 960px under certain, very limited, conditions.
> If you're happy with that there's no need to "mess with" both units, just
> make up your mind whether it's 'em' or 'px' or some other unit you're gonna
> rely on ... and test well.
>
>> Great recall. I presume that body will have some sort of background
>> image so I cannot narrow it, and it should be as wide as the viewport
>> unfortunately.
>
> If you say so. I often let 'html' alone do the "fill viewport" job, leaving
> 'body' open for other jobs. How to use elements depends mainly on degree of
> legacy browser support.
>
>> So this means adding and extra container with no semantic propose
>> other then dealing with this ?
>
> Probably not necessary to add any non-semantic elements as "style only"
> hooks, _if_ you've got a good set/use of semantic elements in the layout.
> You'll have to present it - with the semantics - if you want really qualified
> and detailed advices on how to style it to your liking.
>
> regards
> Georg
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