[Gllug] [OT] XHTML + CSS (was: [OT?] Please sign my Google petition ...)

[Richard Turner]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 01:32:54PM +0100, Richard Turner wrote:
>> 
>> If you use qualitative values for text size, i.e. 'medium', 'larger',
>> x-small, etc. you can set the width of the table in 'em' units,
>> which neatly solves this problem.
> 
> Sadly these units for font sizing are horrically inconsistent across
> different browsers. Nutscrape displays them about 2 sizes larger
> than every one, & Opera does them 1 size large. I've started using
> a technique whereby you set a % size on the body tag & then set
> other elements using ems. This lets you scale the size of every
> element simply by adjusting the % size on the body tag. That said
> I always keep body set at 76% which gives consistent sizing across
> Mozilla, Konquerer, IE & Opera.
> 

Hmm, perhaps I've not tested my site on enough browsers then.  I don't set a
body font size (because that should default to 'medium') and use qualitative
values for different sizes of different elements.  It looks the same on
Mozilla 1.6 (Win and Linux), MSIE6, Konqueror and Opera(Win: I've not tested
Linux).

I've heard that MSIE(Mac) messes it up a bit, but our web server logs
haven't seen a Mac entry for so long that I'm not too concerned, especially
since I've been told it works fine with Safari (as you'd expect since
Konqueror copes OK).

Here's the site: http://www.dlf.org.uk/

Cheers,

Richard.
-- 
"Racing turtles, the grapefruit is winning..."


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