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Re: CSS Units of Measurement

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From: Tim Beadle
Date: Feb 19, 2004 4:59AM

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 01:37:20PM +0200, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> I get the same information on any browser. Don't you? I don't think
> Google does much browser sniffing.

Sorry - I thought you had visited the page at that point.

> > That technique, and the browser upgrade campaign,
> > is positively discouraged now.
>
> I don't know what technique you are referring to,

The "upgrade your browser" message set to display: none in "good" browsers.
The WaSP (as I linked to earlier) now discourage this behaviour.

> It's also almost illegibly small font
> on my current choice of browser (chosen, for better or worse, by hundreds
> of millions of people), unless I take special measures to override all
> font size suggestions by the author. Does _this_ ring a bell?

So you're using IE, a browser I was trying to accommodate with resizable text
in the font sizing method I proposed! The small font at tantek.com is because
Tantek, for better or worse, sets his font size in points. It's irrelevant, and
a completely separate issue from the hack that bears his name, so please don't
confuse the issue.

Tantek Celik helped program the "Tasman" rendering engine in IE5/Mac, at the
time (2000) the most standards-compliant browser available, so he knows what
he's doing, normally.

Regards,

Tim
--
"I don't need a blogging tool or an aggregator or designer or ashtray or
car stereo built into my web browser. I just need it to display web pages
properly." -- Kevin Daly


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