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Re: EMs and EXs

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From: Jens Meiert
Date: Dec 1, 2004 7:58AM

> Has anyone else explored EXs?

The support for "ex" is vague at best, I fear -- most user-agents
misleadingly seem to equate 1ex with .5em, the only exception being IE 5 for
Macintosh which supposedly generates a bitmapped lowercase "x" and measures
its height in pixels, AFAIK.

Hence, I don't recommend to use "ex".


Regards,
Jens.


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Jens Meiert
Interface Architect (IxD)

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