font-size smaller on IE 8 [error correction]

Sent by David Laakso on 28 December 2009 05:05

David Hucklesby wrote:
>
> Further to Felix's good advice to stick to 2 decimal places in
> "em" sizes (so no fractions of 1%)...
>
> I find I get the most consistent results from using these percentages,
> which scale quite well. For example, if font-size of 82% gives 13px,
> then 5em will very likely give 65px in all browsers.
>
>
> Cordially,
> David
>
>   




Huh? Is it really so difficult to use CSS in order to make words 
consistently the same size and easy to read on a screen cross-browser 
that one needs to resort to that kind of pseudo scientific gibberish?

~d

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Message thread:

• font-size smaller on IE 8 - MEM, 21st December 2009 15:28
  • font-size smaller on IE 8 - David Laakso, 21st December 2009 15:49
    • font-size smaller on IE 8 - MEM, 21st December 2009 19:03
      • font-size smaller on IE 8 - David Laakso, 21st December 2009 21:16
        • font-size smaller on IE 8 - MEM, 21st December 2009 21:36
          • font-size smaller on IE 8 - David Laakso, 21st December 2009 21:53
            • font-size smaller on IE 8 [error correction] - David Laakso, 21st December 2009 22:05
              • font-size smaller on IE 8 [error correction] - MEM, 21st December 2009 22:56
                • font-size smaller on IE 8 [error correction] - Climis, Tim, 22nd December 2009 04:49
                  • font-size smaller on IE 8 [error correction] - MEM, 22nd December 2009 11:26
                    • font-size smaller on IE 8 [error correction] - MEM, 27th December 2009 18:11
                      • font-size smaller on IE 8 [error correction] - Felix Miata, 27th December 2009 19:06
                        • font-size smaller on IE 8 [error correction] - MEM, 27th December 2009 20:26
                          • font-size smaller on IE 8 [error correction] - David Laakso, 27th December 2009 20:54
                          • font-size smaller on IE 8 [error correction] - Alan Gresley, 28th December 2009 08:08
                            • font-size smaller on IE 8 [error correction] - David Laakso, 28th December 2009 08:31
                            • font-size smaller on IE 8 [error correction] - Felix Miata, 28th December 2009 13:44
                              • font-size smaller on IE 8 [error correction] - Alan Gresley, 28th December 2009 18:06
                                • font-size smaller on IE 8 [error correction] - MEM, 28th December 2009 18:49
                                  • font-size smaller on IE 8 [error correction] - Tom Livingston, 28th December 2009 18:57
                                  • font-size smaller on IE 8 [error correction] - David Laakso, 28th December 2009 20:27
                                    • font-size smaller on IE 8 [error correction] - MEM, 29th December 2009 14:09
                                      • font-size smaller on IE 8 [error correction] - Felix Miata, 29th December 2009 16:26
                                      • font-size smaller on IE 8 [error correction] - Alan Gresley, 29th December 2009 16:39
                                        • font-size smaller on IE 8 [error correction] - MEM, 29th December 2009 18:23
                                          • font-size smaller on IE 8 [error correction] - Felix Miata, 30th December 2009 01:53
                                            • font-size smaller on IE 8 [error correction] - MEM, 31st December 2009 14:12
                                              • font-size smaller on IE 8 [error correction] - Alan Gresley, 1st January 2010 10:36
                                                • font-size smaller on IE 8 [error correction] - MEM, 2nd January 2010 17:02
                                                  • font-size smaller on IE 8 [error correction] - David Laakso, 2nd January 2010 17:11
                                                    • font-size smaller on IE 8 [error correction] - closing this long thread. - MEM, 3rd January 2010 22:25
                                • IE6 vertical spacing issue on LI elements (imagine that) - Rob Emenecker, 28th December 2009 20:11
                                  • IE6 vertical spacing issue on LI elements (imagine that) - David Laakso, 28th December 2009 20:59
                                    • IE6 vertical spacing issue on LI elements (imagine that) - Rob Emenecker, 28th December 2009 22:18
                                      • IE6 vertical spacing issue on LI elements (imagine that) - Thierry Koblentz, 29th December 2009 06:16
                        • font-size smaller on IE 8 [error correction] - David Hucklesby, 28th December 2009 04:05
                          • font-size smaller on IE 8 [error correction] - David Laakso, 28th December 2009 05:03
                            • font-size smaller on IE 8 [error correction] - Felix Miata, 28th December 2009 06:31
                              • font-size smaller on IE 8 [error correction] - David Laakso, 28th December 2009 06:54
                      • font-size smaller on IE 8 [error correction] - David Laakso, 27th December 2009 19:39
  • font-size smaller on IE 8 - MEM, 21st December 2009 20:09
  • font-size smaller on IE 8 [error correction] - MEM, 30th December 2009 00:53
  • font-size smaller on IE 8 [error correction] - MEM, 31st December 2009 14:30
    • font-size smaller on IE 8 [error correction] - David Laakso, 1st January 2010 05:36