Pixels and points are different size things, so you have to change the numbers too -- I've always just used trial-and-error until the sizes kinda matched. (The other problem is that points are read much more varying-ly across browsers and platforms, so it's a lot harder to get the board to look pretty for everyone.)
I'm not evil again. Why does everyone think that?
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Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
Jessica - Oct 07, 2002 9:15:02 pm PDT #581 of 10000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
amych - Oct 07, 2002 9:15:41 pm PDT #582 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Proportional sizing. IJS.
Jon B. - Oct 07, 2002 9:28:16 pm PDT #583 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
The other problem is that points are read much more varying-ly across browsers and platforms, so it's a lot harder to get the board to look pretty for everyone.
See, that troubles me. I'd rather just leave things as is. And proportional sizing would make that situation worse, no? The style sheet would be providing no "baseline" font size.
Michele T. - Oct 07, 2002 10:31:23 pm PDT #584 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
I'm reasonably sure you can set a baseline with proportional, or that there's a preset one: I'm too tired to try to make sense of this link right now, but check this out [link]
I'm gonna have to try to find a 800/600 screen, but perhaps if the text-entry box were flush with the main column, would that work? Just a random thought.
P.M. Marc - Oct 07, 2002 10:43:09 pm PDT #585 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Setting my monitor to 800 x 600 to test, and it looks like it would work.
Now to get rid of this ugly-ass setting. Eep.
Jon B. - Oct 07, 2002 10:45:58 pm PDT #586 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I checked out that link Michele and all it's done is convince me that I should leave things alone.
I'm gonna have to try to find a 800/600 screen, but perhaps if the text-entry box were flush with the main column, would that work? Just a random thought.
Do you mean flush on the left and right sides? Is that possible?
Jon B. - Oct 07, 2002 10:47:38 pm PDT #587 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I never said 800x600 wouldn't work. We decided long ago that we should design for 640x480.
P.M. Marc - Oct 07, 2002 10:49:07 pm PDT #588 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I never said 800x600 wouldn't work. We decided long ago that we should design for 640x480.
What's the percentage of people still at 640x480?
Jon B. - Oct 07, 2002 10:53:23 pm PDT #589 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
A Hecubus percentage.
I'm sorry, I'm really tired and should go to bed before I get even more cranky.
P.M. Marc - Oct 07, 2002 11:02:18 pm PDT #590 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Aha.
Well, that makes sense, then. I mainly asked because 2 years ago, the company I was web-deving for, which tried to keep things as backwards compatable as possible, stopped supporting anything less than 800 x 600.
I can't get my monitor to display anything less than 800 x 600. Heh. This relates to nothing, but means I can't play one of my games on it. Oh well.
Is there any reason for the bottom table to be a table? The one containing the posting form? Would it work as a centered div? Nevermind me, I'm just spewing suggestions.