Re: [css-d] Font-Sizes - Golden Rule ?

2014-04-09 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
On Apr 9, 2014, at 12:07 AM, Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com wrote: On Apr 9, 2014, at 12:04 AM, Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com wrote: On Apr 9, 2014, at 12:01 AM, Crest Christopher crestchristop...@gmail.com wrote: I think percentages are based on their parents size and

Re: [css-d] Font-Sizes - Golden Rule ?

2014-04-09 Thread MiB
apr 9 2014 08:48 Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com: Looks like there are some exceptions. Have a look see... There ARE a few that took on the browser width, but the majority stuck with their parent. http://designdrumm.com/percentage_test.html Which are the exceptions you mean?

Re: [css-d] Font-Sizes - Golden Rule ?

2014-04-09 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
Le 9 avr. 2014 à 15:48, Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com a écrit : Looks like there are some exceptions. Have a look see... There ARE a few that took on the browser width, but the majority stuck with their parent. http://designdrumm.com/percentage_test.html 1. An element that is

[css-d] CSS Joke

2014-04-09 Thread Crest Christopher
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Re: [css-d] Font-Sizes - Golden Rule ?

2014-04-09 Thread GJim
Howdy Crest, ~~~ Tuesday, April 8, 2014, 9:24:14 PM (USA 'Somewhere on-the-road time-zone'), you wrote the message that appears below. My reply appears here and/or interspersed within your message. ~~~ Em are the best solution for font-sizes, from everything that I know. Pixels I don't know

[css-d] Equal-length columns - display: table-cell OK?

2014-04-09 Thread Freelance Traveller
Currently, my website (Freelance Traveller, http://www.freelancetraveller.com) has slightly messy CSS to give the following appearance (view fixed font): ++ |Header | ++---+ |Nav |Content| |Menu| | ||

Re: [css-d] Equal-length columns - display: table-cell OK?

2014-04-09 Thread Barney Carroll
On 9 April 2014 16:00, Freelance Traveller edi...@freelancetraveller.comwrote: First, is display: table-cell a viable solution for the layout issue? caniuse suggests that if I don't feel a need to support IE7 or earlier, I should be OK, but caniuse doesn't always tell the whole story. The

Re: [css-d] Font-Sizes - Golden Rule ?

2014-04-09 Thread Tim Climis
How did you calculate 100% = 1em ? Mostly everyone used, including myself pixels for box sizing, I hope you were referring to creating a DIV as in box sizing ? What do you mean by percentages are based on browser size ? (although, it would be kind of fun if 100% resulted in letters hundreds

Re: [css-d] Font-Sizes - Golden Rule ?

2014-04-09 Thread Tom Livingston
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Tim Climis tim.cli...@gmail.com wrote: How did you calculate 100% = 1em ? Mostly everyone used, including myself pixels for box sizing, I hope you were referring to creating a DIV as in box sizing ? What do you mean by percentages are based on browser size ?

Re: [css-d] Font-Sizes - Golden Rule ?

2014-04-09 Thread Tim Climis
How did you calculate 100% = 1em ? That's the definition in the spec. On the 'font-size' property, [ems] refer to the computed font size of the parent element. So 1em equals the font-size of the parent element. And [percentages] refer to inherited font-size. The inherited font size of an

Re: [css-d] Equal-length columns - display: table-cell OK?

2014-04-09 Thread David Hucklesby
On 4/9/14, 8:12 AM, Barney Carroll wrote: On 9 April 2014 16:00, Freelance Traveller edi...@freelancetraveller.comwrote: First, is display: table-cell a viable solution for the layout issue? caniuse suggests that if I don't feel a need to support IE7 or earlier, I should be OK, but caniuse

Re: [css-d] Font-Sizes - Golden Rule ?

2014-04-09 Thread Shari
If you use rem's it stays consistent from the body tag... correct? Shari __ 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

Re: [css-d] Font-Sizes - Golden Rule ?

2014-04-09 Thread Tom Livingston
Sent from my iPhone On Apr 9, 2014, at 12:05 PM, Shari webweave...@gmail.com wrote: If you use rem's it stays consistent from the body tag... correct? Correct. It is relative to the root. Shari __ css-discuss

Re: [css-d] Font-Sizes - Golden Rule ?

2014-04-09 Thread Georg
Den 09.04.2014 17:00, skrev GJim: I have found an issue with Opera (v12.16 is installed) when using 'small' vs %. Note that Opera v/12.16 uses the old Presto engine, for which all development is frosen/ended. A good browser, but no good designing for/in it anymore. Download Opera 20+ that

Re: [css-d] Font-Sizes - Golden Rule ?

2014-04-09 Thread Philip Taylor
GJim wrote: according to site stats, I have visitors still using IE3! I /think/ I would check whether my site statistics had been updated this millenium, if I were you ... Philip Taylor __ css-discuss

Re: [css-d] Font-Sizes - Golden Rule ?

2014-04-09 Thread GJim
Howdy Georg, ~~~ Wednesday, April 9, 2014, 1:09:22 PM (USA 'Somewhere on-the-road time-zone'), you wrote the message that appears below. My reply appears here and/or interspersed within your message. ~~~ Note that Opera v/12.16 uses the old Presto engine, for which all development is

Re: [css-d] Font-Sizes - Golden Rule ?

2014-04-09 Thread Eric
Not not correct - The value of a REM is taken from the font-size of the root element...thus the HTML element, not the BODY element. On April 9, 2014 at 12:05 PM Shari webweave...@gmail.com wrote: If you use rem's it stays consistent from the body tag... correct? Shari

Re: [css-d] Font-Sizes - Golden Rule ?

2014-04-09 Thread Eric
Opps, forgot to add this: Yes, if you use REM the value will stay consistent with the value of font-size set on root element. If you use a percentage for the root element's font-size your other font-sizes will vary depending on the browser's default font size setting...Some have no problem with

Re: [css-d] Font-Sizes - Golden Rule ?

2014-04-09 Thread GJim
Howdy Philip, ~~~ Wednesday, April 9, 2014, 1:37:54 PM (USA 'Somewhere on-the-road time-zone'), you wrote the message that appears below. My reply appears here and/or interspersed within your message. ~~~ I /think/ I would check whether my site statistics had been updated this millenium, if I

Re: [css-d] Font-Sizes - Golden Rule ?

2014-04-09 Thread Crest Christopher
I thought Opera went to webkit, or is Blink just another term for webkit ? Georg wrote: Den 09.04.2014 17:00, skrev GJim: I have found an issue with Opera (v12.16 is installed) when using 'small' vs %. Note that Opera v/12.16 uses the old Presto engine, for which all development is

Re: [css-d] Font-Sizes - Golden Rule ?

2014-04-09 Thread Felix Miata
On 2014-04-09 20:33 (GMT-0400) Crest Christopher composed: I thought Opera went to webkit, or is Blink just another term for webkit ? WebKit is a fork of KHTML. Blink is a fork of WebKit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_%28software_development%29 -- The wise are known for their

Re: [css-d] Font-Sizes - Golden Rule ?

2014-04-09 Thread Georg
Den 10.04.2014 02:33, skrev Crest Christopher: I thought Opera went to webkit, or is Blink just another term for webkit ? WebKit is a branch of the KDE open source project, and so is Blink. Google and Opera decided not all that long ago to split from WebKit, and called their engine-version