Re: [css-d] Type in px then ems

2007-09-11 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: >> > > Works as advertised with IE 7. Surprise. I don't know whether to write it off as a bug or as a browser-specific "feature". It is definitely an unexpected effect, as Jukka mentioned. > Naughty Georg. :-) ( meow! ) > I

Re: [css-d] Type in px then ems

2007-09-11 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Sep 12, 2007, at 10:50 AM, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: >>> You will make IE/win start resizing "normally" again if you use >>> relative-size keywords on elements/wrappers _after_ an absolute >>> font-size value on body (or wherever the font-size further in is >>> calculated from). >> >> Pardon? Can

Re: [css-d] Type in px then ems

2007-09-11 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > >> You will make IE/win start resizing "normally" again if you use >> relative-size keywords on elements/wrappers _after_ an absolute >> font-size value on body (or wherever the font-size further in is >> calculated from). >

Re: [css-d] Type in px then ems

2007-09-11 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > You will make IE/win start resizing "normally" again if you use > relative-size keywords on elements/wrappers _after_ an absolute > font-size value on body (or wherever the font-size further in is > calculated from). Pardon? Can you please provide a de

Re: [css-d] Type in px then ems

2007-09-11 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Rick Lecoat wrote: > I was just curious about whether pixels might become resizable if re- > specced in a different unit deeper into object hierarchy, ie. if the > em unit would override the px unit. You will make IE/win start resizing "normally" again if you use relative-size keywords on elemen

Re: [css-d] Type in px then ems

2007-09-11 Thread Rick Lecoat
On 11/9/07 (22:12) David said: >If you know it is a bad idea, why would you do it? Oh, same reason those scientists in old films like to get a brain- damaged ape and a blonde from Central Casting and plug them both into a pair of electric switching helmets. Theoretical knowledge for its own sake

Re: [css-d] Type in px then ems

2007-09-11 Thread David Laakso
Rick Lecoat wrote: > We know that text specified in px is a Bad Idea. What I want to know is: > does the inability to resize px-sizedtext fonts in IE Win get inherited > if the child text is specced in something else (ems, say)? > > Eg: > body {font-size: 14px} > h1 {1.8 em} > > Would the h1 still

Re: [css-d] Type in px then ems

2007-09-11 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Rick Lecoat wrote: > We know that text specified in px is a Bad Idea. What I want to know is: > does the inability to resize px-sizedtext fonts in IE Win get inherited > if the child text is specced in something else (ems, say)? Basically, yes. It has nothing to do with inher

[css-d] Type in px then ems

2007-09-11 Thread Rick Lecoat
This seems so basic that I can't believe I actually need to ask it… and if my copy of IE(Win) wasn't playing up I could run a test myself. But it is, and I can't, so here goes: We know that text specified in px is a Bad Idea. What I want to know is: does the inability to resize px-sizedtext fonts