> I use em for all measurements (except images).
> So those column widths are not 200px but 16.7em.
> With a fixed width page (60em) long lines of text ie 80+ characters per
line are difficult to read.

OK - so is there a formula to work out PX to EM ?  (at least on a
"vanilla" type of setup).

And I am not sure what you were saying in the line that had (60em) in it.

On the JavaScript front..... that is something I want to avoid.  I was not
even sure I could play around with the font size in JavaScript - but I
would not consider this to be "standard".  And, in any case, the user can
supplant my stylesheet with one of their own (and that would be even
uglier than turning off stylesheets alltogether).  At least I have tried
to lay out the pages so they will degrade reasonably with no stylesheet. I
would not like to see what would happen if the user used a stylesheet of
their own.

The "A+ and a-" bit.... you mean some JavaScript trickery to size the
fonts and place some "bean" in their cookies that my JS uses as a seed for
a starting size?

Again - don't like the idea of all that JS to play with something that is
(obviously) getting too close to "Don't change what the browser does".

That being the case - I might as well go with PX and be done with it (not
saying I will - but saying that if I have to do all of the above to get
back the control then I might as well make my life a lot easier and go
with fixed sizes).


Gary Menzel
Web Development Manager
IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited
Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000
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