[Rails] Re: Re: [ANN] Ruby on Rails Searchable and AnnotatableDocs

Rimantas Liubertas
Wed, 17 May 2006 23:53:47 -0000

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>  Seriously though folks,  please try and move away from absolute sizes for
elements (px).
> Unless they''ve fixed it IE can''t resize a 14px font (View
-> Text Size).  Your also assuming that
> 14px is the same size on all monitors and that ain''t the case.
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You have just let evil nitpicker out of me, so here it goes:

Absolute units in CSS are: cm, mm, in, pt, pc.
Relative units are: em, ex, px.

As you say yourself:
> Your also assuming that 14px is the same size on all monitors and that
ain''t the case.

That means "relative", I suppose.

Quote from The God of The Accessibility Joe Clark[1]:

"Today, I want everyone in the room to take a vow never to say
anything like that ever again. Do not tell people, or tell yourself,
or even think that there''s something inherently wrong with pixel-based
fonts. What there''s something inherently wrong with is Internet
Explorer for Windows"

_Yes_, I do thing that setting font size in such way that even poor IE
users can resize them is a
Good Thing (tm). (I also may think, that these three people who know
how to do that resizing are using FF or Opera anyway, but that''s
irrelevant).

_No_, I do not think that anybody setting font size in px should be
punished or called names.

And we absolutely _do not need_ pointless discussion and/or flame war
on this subject. Just do
it in the way you think is the right one.

[1] http://joeclark.org/atmedia/atmedia-NOTES-2.html


Regards,
Rimantas
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