[thelist] [Site Review] Gemsnjewelry.com

Shawn K. Quinn skquinn at frogger.kicks-ass.net
Thu Jun 26 15:21:18 CDT 2003


On Monday June 23 2003 12:49, Jeff Howden wrote:
> shawn,
> ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><
> > There's one remaining use of px units on a 'font-size'
> > property that you forgot to replace. I would try
> > replacing '10px' with '75%' and experiment from there.
> ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><
>
> naw, i didn't forget.  it's for the footer text.  i don't like how
> small it is when set to 75% and the user's font settings are at small
> or smaller. the difference in size isn't really though much between
> medium and large and larger so i don't see any real gain from using a
> relative size.  so, 10px it'll stay.

The problem with this is it's not user-friendly. What if the rest of the 
text is 6px (very possible on hand-held units)? Is it really your 
intent that the footer might be *larger* than the rest of the text? 
It's also quite possible that on a very high-res screen, 10px is nearly 
illegible.

You might want to take a look at 
<URL:http://css.nu/faq/ciwas-aFAQ.html#QA02>.

-- 
Shawn K. Quinn



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