Chris, C'mon man, remove that signature.Your replies are okay - no need to
apologize at the bottom of every e-mail.

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Chris Eppstein <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Josh, you should also check out Compass's sass port of YUI. It
> provides a bunch of mixins that make setting sizes using ems and fonts
> using percents a whole lot easier.
>
> Chris.
>
> Hunt & pecked on my iPhone... Sorry if it's brief!
>
> On Feb 1, 2009, at 6:14 AM, Josh <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> > I'm clearly getting tired.  Thanks!
> >
> > On Feb 1, 4:36 am, Nathan Weizenbaum <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> 2.0.7 isn't from the master branch - it's the latest stable
> >> release, so it
> >> doesn't have behavior changes. You'll need to check Sass out from
> >> git to get
> >> the newest stuff.
> >>
> >> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 2:19 AM, Josh <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'm not sure if the complete research was published.  At least I
> >>> can't
> >>> find it now.  I know Nate Koechley mentions it in the video at
> >>> http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/.
> >>
> >>> As for the division, perhaps I'm doing something wrong.  I installed
> >>> the gem v2.0.7.  I'm just running some simple experiments via RoR
> >>> and
> >>> the command line right now.  If I do something like (4 / 13) it
> >>> returns 0 in the rendered CSS. Flipping it so I'm only multiplying
> >>> (4
> >>> * 0.0769) gives the correct 0.3076 (although with rounding the
> >>> division should return 0.3077 strictly speaking).
> >>
> >>> This is hardly worth much time or effort.  Just figured I'd point it
> >>> out.  Thanks for the quick response!
> >>
> >>> Josh
> >>
> >>> On Feb 1, 2:52 am, Nathan Weizenbaum <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>> In the master branch, division operations will return floating-
> >>>> point
> >>> numbers
> >>>> and there's a Sass::Script::Number::PRECISION constant that cuts
> >>>> off the
> >>>> number of significant digits. Right now it's at 1000.0 (three
> >>>> significant
> >>>> digits), but if you link me to the YUI research, I'll change it
> >>>> to what
> >>> it
> >>>> suggests.
> >>
> >>>> - Nathan
> >>
> >>>> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Joshua Hall
> >>>> <[email protected]>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>> I've gotten into the habit of using em values as much as
> >>>>> possible in my
> >>>>> CSS.  I use the YUI base to setup my grids and such.
> >>>>> This means 1em = 13px in FF, Safari etc.  However, for IE I need
> >>>>> to
> >>>>> multiply my em values by 0.9759 to account for IEs odd
> >>>>> definition of
> >>> em.  I
> >>>>> can do all of this with the current math in SASS.
> >>
> >>>>> I'd like to be able to set my significant digits though.
> >>>>> According to
> >>> some
> >>>>> of the YUI research, four decimal places are optimal.  This is
> >>>>> hardly a
> >>> huge
> >>>>> deal, but it would be nice to set that somewhere.
> >>
> >>>>> More importantly, I've noticed division operations floor the
> >>>>> result.
> >>>>>  Again, not huge because I can just flip all of my calculations
> >>>>> to be
> >>>>> multiplication; however, it seemed like an odd feature.
> >>>>> Shouldn't it
> >>> round
> >>>>> to an integer value (or floor the value) if the unit is px?
> >>>>> However,
> >>> if the
> >>>>> unit is percent, em, etc. then keep the result a decimal.
> >>
> >>>>> Just my thoughts.  Either way, this is a huge help and I plan on
> >>>>> using
> >>> it
> >>>>> with my future projects.
> >>>>> --
> >>
> >>>>> Joshua Hall   |   402.321.4778   |   surrealnotions.com
> >>
> >>>>> A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a
> >>>>> typewriter
> >>> in
> >>>>> front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can
> >>>>> connect
> >>> with the
> >>>>> universe and move bits of it about.
> >>>>> --Douglas Adams
> > >
>
> >
>

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