I usually go px on the body and % everywhere else. Then when doing media queries, most the time all I have to adjust is the body px size and everything else sizes with it correctly. There is always some that are a little off, so then I go an adjust the % for just that one element for just that media query.
Karl Sent from losPhone > On Jul 25, 2014, at 4:44 PM, Eric <e...@minerbits.com> wrote: > > Yep this is what I have done for a long time. > > The support for the REM unit is now pretty much universal in modern UAs, > except > for bugs (one of which I found and reported on pre-IE11). And, in that case > the > REM unit was only being ignored for font-size. > > If you have to support ancient UAs than use a fixed value fallback or an EM if > you don't mind the hassle that imposes. But, of course that raises the > question > why support ancient UAs when their usage is so low these days? :-) > > >> On July 25, 2014 at 7:39 AM Tom Livingston <tom...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> Lack of rem support is easily taken care of with a fallback declaration >> using px: >> >> Font-size:16px; >> Font-size:1rem; >> >> This allows MOST browsers to use a relative font unit - honoring a users >> preference for font size - without the compounding issues (and any >> other) of the em. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Tom Livingston | Senior Front-End Developer | Media Logic | >> ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> css-discuss [css-d@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/ > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [css-d@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/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@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/
