On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Max Horn wrote: >At 8:35 Uhr +0100 16.01.2003, David wrote: >>Inoticed that we use "pt" to determine which font size to display. >>That might be problematic on some operating systems since point size >>is not something that renders at the same resolution on all screens >>across all platforms. It would be better to use pica,ems or exs. > >We might decide to convert it to a pure CSS site one of these day >(I'd be all for it). > >BTW, last time I checked pica was an absolute measure, too, and >dependenent on the screen resolution just like cm, mm and pt.
In my immediate past life (i.e. I am still trying to get my last salary cheques) I worked on accessibility for W3C, and one of the basic things is to use %, ex or em for font sizes, and where possible images (this is harder). I would also be all for a CSS-only layout - I use lynx when I don't care about styling, and it handles clean HTML fine, and a modern browser when I do. >>Now when redefining <pre> we use px as a size denominator for >>padding and margin. That is something we really should consider >>changing. Pixel rendering is dependant on the screen resolution and >>the screen depth which can lead to bad inconsistencies. An absolute >>size adjustment like cm or mm might be a good choice here. px for margins is much less of an issue - although there are screen and font-size differences at work the amount of padding is generally not as critical, and cm/mm/pica don't solve the problem any better (since they still vary in effect according to the users font size). >I don't think px sizing is that bad, in fact if you want a fixed >layout, it's the only way to do it. If you want a fixed layout you should probably be using PDF - it isn't (IMHO) sensible to try and get exactly the same layout on my browser at 1200x800 as it is when I decide to shrink it to 600x800 or 900x300 or move to another machine at 600x400. But there is some value to consistency, and with the generally awful state of browsers there needs to be careful thought and testing to work out what the good trade-offs are... cheers Chaals ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Thawte.com Understand how to protect your customers personal information by implementing SSL on your Apache Web Server. Click here to get our FREE Thawte Apache Guide: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0029en _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
