Comments on: Hold on there Jake… http://tntluoma.com/web/hold-on-there-jake/ Stuff I've Written Down Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:52:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Ian http://tntluoma.com/web/hold-on-there-jake/comment-page-1/#comment-752 Ian Mon, 06 Jan 2003 23:19:09 +0000 http://tntluoma.com/?p=231#comment-752 <p>There is even an annoying bug in their relative font-size implementation whereby if you define a font as being other than 1em, then resizing the page in IE leads to huge shifts in font size - you have to give 100% to IE and then give the em declaration using a child selector trick to real browsers.</p> There is even an annoying bug in their relative font-size implementation whereby if you define a font as being other than 1em, then resizing the page in IE leads to huge shifts in font size - you have to give 100% to IE and then give the em declaration using a child selector trick to real browsers.

]]> By: Tridus http://tntluoma.com/web/hold-on-there-jake/comment-page-1/#comment-751 Tridus Tue, 24 Dec 2002 04:15:10 +0000 http://tntluoma.com/?p=231#comment-751 <p>IE's text resize does work on sites with CSS, but it doesn't work if any of the text is using a fixed size (pt or px).</p> <p>Its pretty lame really.</p> IE’s text resize does work on sites with CSS, but it doesn’t work if any of the text is using a fixed size (pt or px).

Its pretty lame really.

]]> By: Jor http://tntluoma.com/web/hold-on-there-jake/comment-page-1/#comment-750 Jor Mon, 23 Dec 2002 17:13:30 +0000 http://tntluoma.com/?p=231#comment-750 <p>Well, 9 good points, and one misconception -- not bad.</p> <p>He also didn't take into account Opera and Mozilla both allow you to specify a minimum font size, as well as a user stylesheet where you can specify even more accessibility features. (Like Opera 7's 'accessibility' stylesheet -- some really good ideas in there!)</p> <p>I just tested by the way, and MSIE6's 'change text size' setting indeed does not work on sites styled with CSS. One more reason to switch to Opera, or, if you have the RAM to spare, Mozilla!</p> Well, 9 good points, and one misconception — not bad.

He also didn’t take into account Opera and Mozilla both allow you to specify a minimum font size, as well as a user stylesheet where you can specify even more accessibility features. (Like Opera 7’s ‘accessibility’ stylesheet — some really good ideas in there!)

I just tested by the way, and MSIE6’s ‘change text size’ setting indeed does not work on sites styled with CSS. One more reason to switch to Opera, or, if you have the RAM to spare, Mozilla!

]]> By: Bill Creswell http://tntluoma.com/web/hold-on-there-jake/comment-page-1/#comment-749 Bill Creswell Mon, 23 Dec 2002 15:44:54 +0000 http://tntluoma.com/?p=231#comment-749 <p>Saying IE's browser "doesn't give you control" is kind of a funky twist too. I used px and pt when I desire as a webmaster to control the font to control to the layout. I have the freedom to use em and % when I have allow the design of the site to allow it, preventing site viewer from accidentally destroying the layout.</p> Saying IE’s browser “doesn’t give you control” is kind of a funky twist too. I used px and pt when I desire as a webmaster to control the font to control to the layout. I have the freedom to use em and % when I have allow the design of the site to allow it, preventing site viewer from accidentally destroying the layout.

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