Re: Re: Text sizing

Andrew Tetlaw
Fri, 07 Jul 2006 00:14:17 -0000

On 07/07/06, Eric Anderson <eric-ANzg6odk14w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Seems to me the 76% and em sizing solution is a hack. The person who
> developed that hack took 250 screenshots to find just the right way to
> achieve the results they were after. I admire the use of experimentation
> but I doubt it is maintainable. You think 3 years from now 76% will
> still be the magic number? Or will some new version of IE or Firefox
> change the results of that experiment?

You''re right. And I for one, would love to just use 1em as the default
font-size. Ideally that''s what everyone should do because the web is
viewed on so many different devices these days that we should let each
device render 1em the best way it can.

BUT of course we all have to please someone and bosses/clients often
don''t give a damn about that and only want it to look a certain way
that is pleasing to them.

Thus the fight for balance between being able to control presentation
but making it compatible with as most software/devices possible.

Thus the hunt for hacks goes on....

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Andrew Tetlaw
htp://tetlaw.id.au