[88mph]

just found this:

http://riddle.pl/emcalc/

and was considering turning all my pixel measurements to em's, do you think this is a good idea?

[d*d]

yup

If you set your font-size to 62.5%, then the ratio is easier to work with as 1 em = 10px

[djeglin]

Don't set your font size to 62.5% - Setting your body font size by percentage is good, but set it to 100% or more. Anything less than 100% triggers inconsistencies in IEs rendering of larger and smaller font sizes.

[88mph]

good to know before i hack at all this code

[88mph]

Originally Posted by djeglin

Don't set your font size to 62.5% - Setting your body font size by percentage is good, but set it to 100% or more. Anything less than 100% triggers inconsistencies in IEs rendering of larger and smaller font sizes.

do you mean in my code? or in my browser? I was just going to use the em calc to work out all the measurements for my whole site, so it should dynamically shift for extra usability

[roo]

I did the 100.01% thing on the body then used ems

[d*d]

Originally Posted by djeglin

Don't set your font size to 62.5% - Setting your body font size by percentage is good, but set it to 100% or more. Anything less than 100% triggers inconsistencies in IEs rendering of larger and smaller font sizes.

Not heard of that before

[djeglin]

What i mean is, use a percentage to set your base font size for your body tag. IE body { font-size: 100%; }, then use ems to set your font sizes in your content ( p.someclass { font-size: 0.75 em; } ).

Its good to set a base font size for your body tag. This helps to keep things consistent across browsers, but setting that size to less than 100% makes IE6 scale fonts irregularly when people change their font size in their browser (IE, to larger, largest, smaller, smallest). Using 100% or higher keeps these changes consistent across browsers.

[djeglin]

Originally Posted by d*d

Not heard of that before

I read about it a while ago, and then we had a woman in here to talk to us yesterday from the RNIB about all this stuff, and she said it as well. Its one of those little things that is worth knowing.

[88mph]

Originally Posted by roo

I did the 100.01% thing on the body then used ems

why 100.01%?

[weldo]

i've not heard that one either .. and can't say i've noticed it do anything to IE ...

does anyone know why Opera 9 displays all my text as abnormally HUGE ?
is that related to 62.5% at all ?

[88mph]

just to clarify, my original post was not just about font size's, i was thinking of making ALL measurements em's, so that when the font gets bigger, the rest of the site grows with it, is this considered good practice?

[d*d]

Originally Posted by 88mph

just to clarify, my original post was not just about font size's, i was thinking of making ALL measurements em's, so that when the font gets bigger, the rest of the site grows with it, is this considered good practice?

No, images will look awful

[88mph]

Originally Posted by d*d

No, images will look awful

so keep the structure solid (unless using a liquid design) would be your advice?

[d*d]

Originally Posted by 88mph

so keep the structure solid (unless using a liquid design) would be your advice?

yes, but allow for the textsize increase

[haku]

set everything in ems except your images. Images need to be a static size or they get all weird. But everything else flows better if its in ems.

[88mph]

surely if i stay true to the images dimensions, it'd be fine?

[pgo]

Well, they're bitmaps, not vector, so they will look bad when resized.

[88mph]

Originally Posted by pgo

Well, they're bitmaps, not vector, so they will look bad when resized.

i suppose, but this is for people with poor eyesight??

[Cascade]

not always, people on hi-res screen may use it too

also the base size is 1em = 16px, you can see the calculator on riddle.pl set this as default