Re: containing floating img height within a div

Steve Broski wrote:
On Feb 2, 5:13 pm, Jeff <dont_bug...@xxxxxx> wrote:

1 em may be fine for essentially 1 column pages but it is
commercially unfeasable most anywhere else.

That pretty much sums it up.

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As I said before, academia, research, governmental sites, etc... a
larger font might make sense. Handcuffing commercial work under the
guise that you're "right" in using "non-standard" font sizing,
dropping more content below the fold, etc... that's just ego.

It may be a little instructive of just who is giving out the 1em advice. I've been seeing this for years in these groups and I don't think anyone who has recommended that has a commercial portfolio. Not to disparage acadamia and personal or very small business sites, but you just won't get much work designing commercial sites that don't fit in with expectations. If you advise people to use 1 em, because it is "right", bear in mind that you are almost surly dooming them to commercial failure. That's not really fair. Your battle there was lost shortly after the advent of CSS, back in the pre css days everything was 1em and in some hideous default ,usually serif font. And if it wasn't, it was tag soup.

There's been a remarkable number of battles won, like separating content and presentation and relegating tables for tabular data. The same developers who are doing that are setting fonts for smaller than 1 em and there is no indication that will change.

Jeff
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