Re: CSS article

What makes Eric Meyer the most sensible standards evangelist around is his 
unsaid motto of "never say never."  (I just had the fortune of meeting 
Eric, http://www.highedweb.org/conference02.html , where he elaborated on 
many of the same points.)

Note in the article how Eric suggests that those of us who employ "fluid 
design" techniques find that rendering surprises in different browsers 
actually become part of the design.  I must always remind myself that I 
cannot control the user's browsing environment.  So I will not force the 
issue and make one size fit all.

For no really good reason at all, I always use EMs.  Why?  Mostly because 
they're relative and more accessible, partly because it's an abstract unit 
of measurement, funky and unpredictable.

-kb


At 02:02 PM 6/20/2002 +0000, you wrote:

>>I'm still in the middle of reading the article but there's
>>a part where she says
>>
>>"If I had a dime for every corporate site that tries to set
>>text size in points..."
>>
>>Is there something wrong with doing this? How should text
>>size be set? In ems?
>
>Pixels, always pixels. They are the only unit that causes the same font 
>size on all operating systems.
>
>See http://www.alistapart.com/stories/fear4/ for an explanation.
>
>ppk

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