[css-d] Font units question

2012-12-20 Thread Tom Livingston
It's been quite a while now since i've seen this topic discussed. I'm aware that it used to be Holy War territory, but I have what I *think* is a legitimate questions on the topic. . . Is sizing text in pixels **still** considered a no-no? I've seen sites recently that used px for font units and

Re: [css-d] Font units question

2012-12-20 Thread Angela French
Discussion Group Subject: [css-d] Font units question It's been quite a while now since i've seen this topic discussed. I'm aware that it used to be Holy War territory, but I have what I *think* is a legitimate questions on the topic. . . Is sizing text in pixels **still** considered a no-no? I've

Re: [css-d] Font units question

2012-12-20 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Thu, 20 Dec 2012, Tom Livingston wrote: It's been quite a while now since i've seen this topic discussed. I'm aware that it used to be Holy War territory, but I have what I *think* is a legitimate questions on the topic. . . Is sizing text in pixels **still** considered a no-no? Of

Re: [css-d] Font units question

2012-12-20 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
Le 21 déc. 2012 à 06:17, Tom Livingston tom...@gmail.com a écrit : Is sizing text in pixels **still** considered a no-no? It is still not a good, user friendly idea. Control freak designers will disagree… I've seen sites recently that used px for font units and even in Chrome (latest Mac

Re: [css-d] Font units question

2012-12-20 Thread Tom Livingston
This is what I thought. I do still see px a lot. As far as Chrome goes, is visited a site, saw that it uses px, changed my Chrome settings to very large in preferences but the site font size was unchanged. Safari, with scale font size only set, the text of the site scaled up. Thanks Philippe. On

Re: [css-d] Font units question

2012-12-20 Thread David Hucklesby
On 12/20/12 4:47 PM, Tom Livingston wrote: This is what I thought. I do still see px a lot. [...] On Thursday, December 20, 2012, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: Le 21 déc. 2012 à 06:17, Tom Livingston tom...@gmail.com javascript:; a écrit : Is sizing text in pixels **still** considered a