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Paul Bradforth pbi at dircon.co.uk
Fri Jul 7 13:25:38 CDT 2000


> on 7/7/00 5:36 AM, Paul Bradforth at pbi at dircon.co.uk wrote:
> 
> > On 6/7/00 at 8:12 pm, gstrange at e-tsi.com (Greg Strange) wrote:
> > 
> >> As for titling, I use CSS now and it works wonderfully.  Everything
> >> scales with browsers and monitor sizes; I can make changes to that
> >> text once and it follows every page.  Now, I know what you are
> >> going to say and that is actually *my* follow-up question.
> > 
> > Do you set font sizes in points or pixels? Or ems? Interested to
> > know...
> > 
> 
> 
> I have been setting them in pixels mainly because I am not that clear
> on the concept of ems and ens.  If someone could clear that up for me,
> I would appreciate it.

Just wondered...when you said, above, that everything scales beautifully
with CSS, I thought you must be using points or ems or summink, as
pixels kind of ties it to the one size. Which is the way I do it, FWIW
:-)

best wishes,

Paul

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