Re: Re: Text sizing

Ryan Gahl
Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:57:51 -0000

A hack is nothing more than a creative solution, albeit short term and
subject to breaking under the changing terms of future environments. But,
then you as the creative solution engineer just find the new solution,
always looking for the possibility of a more long term fix but not afraid to
resort to black magic, general hackery, and other types of mysterious foo.

-Ryan Gahl, 2006

:-)

On 7/6/06, Andrew Tetlaw <atetlaw-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
> 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....
>
> --
> Andrew Tetlaw
> htp://tetlaw.id.au
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