Posted by dorayme on 11/17/06 22:14

In article <Xns987EDA97B72D1KeithYammer@212.23.3.119>,
K A Nuttall <keith@yammer.coedotyoukay.invalid> wrote:

> dorayme wrote:
>
> > Welcome to newsgroups.
>
> Been doing usenet for 12 years, but thanks anyway :-)

Fair enough. I sort of meant, not so much to imply inexperience
on your part, but to lower your expectations of the capabilities
of usenet to summarise things.

> 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'.
>

Hang around, you will learn lots.

> > 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.
>
Crikey, you sound like a young dorayme, I was independently
minded and took nothing on trust at first and now I am reborn,
see the light, and follow everything said blindly. My shrink says
that while I am now cured of the pathological stubbornness of my
youth, the sessions will have to continue, unfortunately, because
I have swung too far the other way. (At the prices she charges, I
can certainly understand why she thinks this).

> > 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).
>

Fair enough.

> > 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.

Don't worry about the mauling, think of it as material for
entertainment. Ignore it even. There was a fellow here who used
to have a fantastic technique at handling maulings: he would tell
the maulers to have a nice day and that freedom was a wonderful
thing and stuff like that. I miss him.

--
dorayme

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