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PX or PT {tis all good ya}
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 9:28 pm
by Gen-ik
Do you use PX or PT when setting the font sizes in your CSS.... and why?
EDIT: The best answer wins the soggy cookie that's just broke and plopped in to my coffee.
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 9:32 pm
by Cruzado_Mainfrm
i use px
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 9:42 pm
by d3ad1ysp0rk
px because that's what I'm used to..
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 9:43 pm
by scorphus
I use pt. Follow the
link.
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 10:23 pm
by phice
I've always used px for font-size, and I always will.

Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2003 2:38 am
by twigletmac
I don't use either, I use the relative font sizes (at the moment x-small, small, medium et.al but I want to move to em) because the absolute font sizes cannot be resized in IE via the browser. This means that absolute font sizes are a total no no because of accessibilty reasons. I should add that this is an IE and older browser problem, Moz Firebird can happily resize fonts set in either absolute or relative units.
Mac
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2003 7:10 pm
by m3rajk
i don't use either. i wanted to find something like the size =1 and size=-1 in the font tag that used to be in html that would be relative. after talking to someone that knows css better i found out the solution:
EM however, that's not entirely true. while it's relative you can't do negative. when i mentioned that i was told that a change .2 is about the same as 1 in the size, thus
is about the same as
and
is about
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 10:47 am
by microthick
I use pt. There is less visual difference when using pt on ns4+, ns7 and ie5+ than there is with px.
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 10:58 am
by JAM
As Mac, I use the x-small, small etc. version for less difference browser-wise.
And you can keep the cookie. =)
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 12:15 pm
by Johnm
I use px only because that is what I learned first and old habits are hard to break.
John M
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2003 3:33 am
by cybaf
px is the most logic to me.... however better praxis is to use relative fontsizes for people who can't see very good.... so
is what I normally use
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 7:34 pm
by m3rajk
cybaf wrote:px is the most logic to me.... however better praxis is to use relative fontsizes for people who can't see very good.... so
is what I normally use
this is the same reason i like the relative sizes. in my family i am the only person who doesn't use glasses. my sister and mother need them to drive. my father toread. thus the issue of being able to resize through your browser is something i am quite aware of. i design pages to look best in medium (12 point) but to allow the user to modify. as i said earlier, i was annoyed that css did not have a +1/-1 way to do it until i was told the trick with em. thus em is the best way to go consider .2 to be the rough equivalent of the html tag +1/-1
therefore:
css em | html's font tag
0.2 | -4
0.4 | -3
0.6 | -2
0.8 | -1
1.0 |
1.2 | +1
1.4 | +2
1.6 | +3
1.8 | +4
and so on