Re: [css-d] em or % in width

2005-11-29 Thread david
Christian Montoya wrote: On 11/28/05, Michel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoted from Christian Montoya: but considering that few users ever resize their text (as in nobody), most visitors would never even notice the difference. I agree with you when regular crt displays are used, but things will

Re: [css-d] em or % in width

2005-11-29 Thread Squibb, Brian
: 29 November 2005 08:23 To: css-d Subject: Re: [css-d] em or % in width I'm curious about this... I figured most users would decrease their resolution rather than increase their text size... is there any more input on this? As my eyes have gotten older, I've generally left my resolution

Re: [css-d] em or % in width

2005-11-29 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Scott Hamm wrote: On 11/29/05, Zoe M. Gillenwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott Hamm wrote: I've been asking around in webdesign mailing list for feedbacks and learned a lot about em, % and accessibility in CSS part. I'm trying to use % so I can add up to 100% and I've been told that

Re: [css-d] em or % in width

2005-11-29 Thread Felix Miata
Christian Montoya wrote, and as usual, stripped attribution (which I restored): Scott Hamm wrote: If em is the best method to set up CSS for layout, it's not Or is, depending on the design requirements. then how can I add up the width to remain fluid like %? You can't. EM width

Re: [css-d] em or % in width

2005-11-29 Thread Felix Miata
Christian Montoya wrote: On 11/28/05, Michel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with you when regular crt displays are used, but things will change. People buy tft screens, with native 1280x1024 resolutions. Running in a lower resolution gives a distorted image so a lot will keep it at

Re: [css-d] em or % in width

2005-11-29 Thread Scott Hamm
On 11/29/05, Squibb, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David is correct in that people with poor eyesight need higher resolution and then magnify the text. I have just had to write an app for viually impaired, and that is the way it is done. In that case, which do you use most often? % or

Re: [css-d] em or % in width

2005-11-29 Thread Scott Hamm
On 11/29/05, Zoe M. Gillenwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott Hamm wrote: I've been asking around in webdesign mailing list for feedbacks and learned a lot about em, % and accessibility in CSS part. I'm trying to use % so I can add up to 100% and I've been told that em is better than %

[css-d] em or % in width

2005-11-28 Thread Scott Hamm
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Re: [css-d] em or % in width

2005-11-28 Thread Christian Montoya
If em is the best method to set up CSS for layout, it's not then how can I add up the width to remain fluid like %? You can't. EM width layouts are fixed width. They have been dubbed elastic because they resize whenever the text is resized, meaning that they zoom in and out depending on the

Re: [css-d] em or % in width

2005-11-28 Thread Michel
Quoted from Christian Montoya: but considering that few users ever resize their text (as in nobody), most visitors would never even notice the difference. I agree with you when regular crt displays are used, but things will change. People buy tft screens, with native 1280x1024 resolutions.

Re: [css-d] em or % in width

2005-11-28 Thread Christian Montoya
On 11/28/05, Michel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoted from Christian Montoya: but considering that few users ever resize their text (as in nobody), most visitors would never even notice the difference. I agree with you when regular crt displays are used, but things will change. People buy

Re: [css-d] em or % in width

2005-11-28 Thread Roger Roelofs
Christian, On Nov 28, 2005, at 6:57 PM, Christian Montoya wrote: On 11/28/05, Michel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoted from Christian Montoya: but considering that few users ever resize their text (as in nobody), most visitors would never even notice the difference. I agree with you when

Re: [css-d] em or % in width

2005-11-28 Thread Uwe Kaiser
On 29.11.2005 00:57, Christian Montoya wrote: On 11/28/05, Michel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoted from Christian Montoya: but considering that few users ever resize their text (as in nobody), most visitors would never even notice the difference. I agree with you when regular crt displays are

Re: [css-d] em or % in width

2005-11-28 Thread Uwe Kaiser
CORRECTION I wrote: This results in different font sizes on Mozilla/Opera and MSIE, when the developer uses pixel for font-sizing, because MSIE is working intern in points and not in pixels, as the others do. Correct is: This results in different font sizes on Mozilla/Opera and MSIE, when the