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Posted by K A Nuttall on 11/17/06 21:29
dorayme wrote:
> Welcome to newsgroups.
Been doing usenet for 12 years, but thanks anyway :-)
This group's new to me though. I've lurked here for maybe a couple of
months. I changed career to web developer last year, and eventually
thought I ought to hang out in 'places of wisdom'.
> Look, the truth is likely to be that there
> are so many browsers, so many platforms, so many variables that
> there is no bible on the matter. If you have someone with good
> sense - eg. the resident ascetic, old B - saying to set the body
> to 100%, just do it.
The thing is, I don't work that way. I like to see a
problem/discussion/solution/explanation on a given subject that
satisfies my question. And I usually find good stuff on most bugs I
come across, eventually.
It's not that I don't believe old B (who's that then?), I just like to
see a rationale for a technique before I'm satisfied. I've always been
like that. I couldn't just learn formulae at school, I had to
understand them.
> In addition, you have an argument, namely it
> avoids a bug in IE.
Well, that's good enough in itself, except I don't think I've ever had
the problem it solves (never set body in ems).
> There are other arguments. You need to think
> through them and simply adopt a policy.
That's what I'm doing, next time I spend an evening with my web stuff.
I might report back with my findings, if people promise not to maul me.
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K A Nuttall
www.yammer.co.uk
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