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Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 11/14/06 21:15
dorayme wrote:
> "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> wrote:
>
>> That said, 100% is the default size of course, and you don't really
>> need to assign it at all, but doing so does reinforce and show your
>> intent, so I think it's a Good Thingâ¢.
>>
>> The rest of your points were discussed by those Brits who awoke five
>> hours before me. <g>
>
> For those who wake five hours after you, what do you know about that
> business of setting HTML to font-size 100% to fix some em bug in IE?
As I understand it, IE6 and less have a bug where if the body font is
set at 1em (or any amount of em), the browser's text size changes
(medium, larger, etc) really screw up and show something twice as big
instead of only a few percentage points or pixels larger.
> Wasn't sure if DP meant HTML or was neutral as between Body and HTML
> on this issue... Perhaps I should ask him? Hoy there, Dylan Parry...
He's probably gone to bed by now ... :-)
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-bts
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