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Font Sizes - interesting article (honestly) - 7/21/2005 11:11:41
Figuring out your base font-sze for your CSS has always been troublesome (at least for me). The problem being that different browsers (and IE) have different default font-sizes - so it's difficult to set a baseline effectively.
This article: http://loadaveragezero.com/vnav/labs/CSS/font-size.php says that the font keyword x-small is actually the same across all major browsers - 10px. Therefore you could set the base font-size to x-small and use % or ems to scale it up in your content tags and you should get the same effect cross-browser.
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RE: Font Sizes - interesting article (honestly) - 7/21/2005 15:04:55
I remember reading the Noodle Incident and after a while it was like letters dancing around in front of my eyes like Fantasia! (oh no I can hear the music again!) dum dum diddly dum dum...
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RE: Font Sizes - interesting article (honestly) - 7/21/2005 15:12:03
Ooops, are you twitching too?
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RE: Font Sizes - interesting article (honestly) - 7/21/2005 15:16:27
No the pills control the twitching usually - unless I do something stupid like upload my site's new CSS file to the actual site instead of the test area... oh b****r.
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RE: Font Sizes - interesting article (honestly) - 7/22/2005 9:37:42
No idea.
I'm presuming here that this:
body {font-size:10px;}
#container {font-size: 160%;}
is the same as this:
body {font-size: x-small;}
#container {font-size: 160%;}
Just tried it myself and can't see a difference.
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RE: Font Sizes - interesting article (honestly) - 7/24/2005 11:41:37
No idea.
I tried it out both ways and they both scale up nicely - so can't see difference either.
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RE: Font Sizes - interesting article (honestly) - 7/24/2005 16:51:09
try this tailgate:
www.golfer.com/applyforsmutbrigademembership.html
oops! I meant Tailslide
< Message edited by dpf -- 7/25/2005 10:08:12 >
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RE: Font Sizes - interesting article (honestly) - 7/26/2005 8:42:05
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I must have blinked and missed that! I can't remember any invitation, and my senility's not half as advanced as those of you in the 'old farts club'!
Must have forgotten your invitation womble. Never mind - it's not important. The Old Farts private forum has been outed by Tailslide on another thread.
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RE: Font Sizes - interesting article (honestly) - 7/26/2005 12:47:06
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I shall go and sulk now..
Don't sulk womble. We still love you. You just missed out on membership. Between you and me you need to be a bit more smutty.
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RE: Font Sizes - interesting article (honestly) - 7/26/2005 12:54:50
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Between you and me you need to be a bit more smutty. why only between you and her?
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They even have their own club now?!? Next they'll be demanding their very own secret forum like the mods'!
I admit I did recently have an ever-so slightly techie phase and I haven't indulged in as much smuttiness as I would have liked. I will try harder in future. 