THanks Jody. I did another test by increasing Safari's font size to 18px, and the layout expanded. This makes the EM not stable to use for layout. I wonder if it has always like this for Safari or is a new bug.
tee On Jul 30, 2010, at 11:47 AM, Jody Tate wrote: > If this helps: my MacBook Pro is about 2 months old and Safari's default is > 16px. > > -jody > > > On Jul 30, 2010, at 11:38 AM, tee wrote: > >> >>>> >>> >>> I had this issue to then I checked safari's default font size and it >>> was set to 12px instead of 16px like the other browsers. Once I >>> changed that setting to 16px then they all looked the same. I would >>> suggest verifying in your browsers that they all have the same px size >>> set for their default font size before testing. >> >> Thanks for bringing this up. I changed it and now Safari renders the width >> similar to others. >> >> This is very strange! The font size in my Safari is 14px. I'd just had this >> computer about 6 months ago, and have no memory I altered the font size for >> the reason I did in previous machine (mentioned in my previous email). >> >> Other browsers have default 16px. >> >> Do you have idea how Safari makes the calculation that resulted 121px >> differences with 14px font size setting when width is set to 62em. >> >> tee >> >> ******************************************************************* >> List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm >> Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm >> Help: [email protected] >> ******************************************************************* >> >> >> > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [email protected] > ******************************************************************* > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [email protected] *******************************************************************
