Susie Gardner-Brown wrote:
Re the font-resizing - sigh!! For a lot of the websites we develop at
the university here, we're supposed to use this awful template,
which includes the lefthand menu like this. In the template it's all
in tables!! I got the way of doing this menu from
http://demo.pixelsandpages.com/test_dual.html and I thought it
covered all problems!
For a menu in isolation, yes. When placed in your layout its 'em' sizes
creates more problems than it solves.
Once you start using 'em' for dimensions _one_ place, you'll have to
make sure _all_ elements play well together when subjected to font-resizing.
I already have the base body font size set at 62.5%. Are you saying
that if I add in "html { font-size: 100%; }" before that it
will be OK?
If you check with the CSS validator you'll see that a big chunk of your
stylesheet disappears in a Parse Error - including the font-size on
body. Fix that part and you'll fix the "em bug".
Of course: such a small font-size as 62.5% as base will make the effect
of 'minimum font size' in Firefox and Opera ruin the page...
<http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_1_03_04.html>
Of course, I'm a Mac-user, who pretty much uses Firefox all the
time. But I do have XP and IE6 installed in Parallels so I check on
that. But I guess usually after I've developed in FF Mac ... :)
Cross-checking _during_ development will save you time - tons of it.
Testing with regular browser-option well beyond what "normal" users will
expose your work to, will save you from having to deal with
"user-introduced problems" later on.
regards
Georg
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