> The whole point is to be relative in your units so the layout design > can look the same across different resolutions.
Yes - I know the reasons behind it. And I spend way too much time thinking about it now and dont see any clear pathways to a sensible outcome. Hence why I am bringing it to a wider group. It is the current implementations of it all that I am critical of. And until my images scale flawlessly as well (because someone with a sight impairment is going to have as much trouble seeing my images as they are my text) it all seems a little bit of a "hack" to me. It makes more sense to produce my design so it works and then encourage the use of the accessibility options in an OS (like magnifier software, screen readers, etc.) than to have a browser botch up the job of scaling my design. Flash isn't CSS and XHTML and it isn't a browser. And you don't have to "think" in relative font sizes when you create a Flash movie. It just sizes itself - because the whole environment is vector based. To achieve that in a HTML type environment we really should all move to SVG or even VML (or some other more palatable version of vector based markup). In any case, relative font sizes are not "vector" based - only the technology to scale the fonts themselves is (assuming the fonts being used are vector based fonts - e.g. True Type, etc.). I have been running around on a number of sites - sizing them up and down - and am disappointed by what I see. Can anyone point me to some sites that maintain a sensible CSS/XHTML design (with mutiple columns - both fixed and fluid - and images and banners and footers) that scale correctly when sized in a Browser using the browsers scaling and dont go all wonky? I don't want to rip off their designs - I want to absorb their techniques. If I am going to do this thing with scalable, relative fonts, etc. I want to do it properly. At the moment I feel that all the efforts I am expending are really being wasted. I love all the kewl techniques that I see on sites like CSS Zen Garden, Max Design, Man In Blue, etc. But in many cases "function" loses out over "form" (e.g. Zen Garden is wonderful, but the sites I have to build need more function than form, they are full of figures and tables and graphs, and that is where I find the brick wall gets more solid). Gary Menzel Web Development Manager IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 PH: 07 333 44 828 FX: 07 3834 0828 To unsubscribe from this email please forward this email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If this communication is not intended for you and you are not an authorised recipient of this email you are prohibited by law from dealing with or relying on the email or any file attachments. This prohibition includes reading, printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, storing or in any other way dealing or acting in reliance on the information. If you have received this email in error, we request you contact ABN AMRO Morgans Limited immediately by returning the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the original. We will refund any reasonable costs associated with notifying ABN AMRO Morgans. This email is confidential and may contain privileged client information. ABN AMRO Morgans has taken reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all its communications, including electronic communications, but accepts no liability for materials transmitted. Materials may also be transmitted without the knowledge of ABN AMRO Morgans. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited its directors and employees do not accept liability for the results of any actions taken or not on the basis of the information in this report. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited and its associates hold or may hold securities in the companies/trusts mentioned herein. Any recommendation is made on the basis of our research of the investment and may not suit the specific requirements of clients. Assessments of suitability to an individual?s portfolio can only be made after an examination of the particular client?s investments, financial circumstances and requirements. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited (ABN 49 010 669 726 AFSL 235410) A Participant of ASX Group ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
