- From: Erik van der Poel <erik@netscape.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 22:44:04 -0800
- To: www-style@w3.org
[Sorry about the delayed reply...] Ian Hickson wrote: > > So why not make CSS3's font-size take on an additional "flag", namely > "ex-size" or something, which indicates that the font-size value is > setting the height of the font-size and not the height of the > em-square? > [...] > I haven't worked out how this interacts with font-size-adjust. Not only would we need to figure out how this interacts with font-size-adjust (shudder), I don't see what advantage ex-size would have over font-size-adjust. > Finally: I'm not sure I like this. It seems incredibly complicated if > all we are trying to do is make sure that ex-heights are aligned... > especially if that then makes something else look silly (like the > width). CSS2 says that font-size-adjust "tends to stabilize the horizontal metrics of lines". Take a look at the 2 images in CSS2. You'll see the horizontal effect. Erik
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