- From: B.K. DeLong <bkdelong@pobox.com>
- Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 10:27:08 -0500
- To: "Patrick H. Lauke" <redux@splintered.co.uk>,w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
- Cc: "John Foliot - WATS.ca" <foliot@wats.ca>
At 02:45 PM 1/5/2005 +0000, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: >It's not just a case of changing any px references to ems. You need to >have a good look at the CSS and your typical page structure and let >inheritance work *for* you, rather than against you. E.g.: not studied >your CSS in any detail, but there are a lot of font-size:11px rules there. >If you wanted to change to ems, you wouldn't replace all those with >font-size:0.75em (as yes, that would get you into inheritance problems), >but rather set the font-size for the entire page (on the body element) to >0.75em and remove any further size declarations for all the elements, >classes, etc that are to be displayed at this default size. To sum it up >in a few words: you want to set the font size at the highest possible >level within the document tree. > >Hope that makes some kind of sense... Sort of. The nice thing is our base font size IS set to 12px. So I guess I can leave that as default em-wise and go from there. The problem, then, is all the calculations of permutations of nested properties. Otherwise, all our legacy material will look very inconsistent. -- B.K. DeLong Web Production Specialist MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Building 9, Room 215 105 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 email: bkdelong@mit.edu http://bkdelong.mit.edu
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