On Fri, 8 Feb 2002 10:41:53 -0600, Dan Scott wrote: > Looks better. You might consider specifying an actual table width instead > of a percentage (it'll help with cell creep).
Learn to live with the "cell creep". Or specify the size in picas, points, inches, or millimeters, but _never_ in pixels. As soon as you specify any size in pixels, you're screwing someone. Remember, my 10pt font is most likely not the same size as your 10pt font. Especially people like me that use high resolution monitors regularly get screwed by site authors specifying the sizes of things in pixels. How big do you think an 8 or 10 pixel font is on a 19" monitor at 1600 x 1280? Or if you specify 400 pixels for a column width, that's almost 2/3 of the screen at 640 x 480, but it's only 1/4 of as 1600 x 1200 screen and 1/5 of a 2048 x 1560 screen. And, even if the column isn't microscopically small on my monitor at the pixel size specified, the text on the hires monitor is quite a few pixels larger, so maybe only one or two words will fit on each line when the column size is in pixels. Stick to relative measures, like percentages for columns and "+1" "-1" for font sizes. You have less control, but your site is at least workable on more systems. And that, of course, is the purpose of the Web in the first place ... show as much as you can to as many people as you can. TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
