Comments on: About em http://nickcowie.com/2005/about-em/ Web standards, accessibility and such like with a bias toward Government web sites Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:22:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: nick http://nickcowie.com/2005/about-em/comment-page-1/#comment-11355 nick Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:26:32 +0000 http://nickcowie.com/?p=8#comment-11355 Suhas, unless a client has changed their default font-size ( and from experience 99% of people do not change their default font size) or is using a pre 2000 Mac, their default-font size will be 16px. If you want to be sure, there is an article in A List Apart about using javascript to <a href="http://alistapart.com/articles/fontresizing" rel="nofollow">detect default font size</a>. Suhas, unless a client has changed their default font-size ( and from experience 99% of people do not change their default font size) or is using a pre 2000 Mac, their default-font size will be 16px.

If you want to be sure, there is an article in A List Apart about using javascript to detect default font size.

]]> By: Suhas Dhoke http://nickcowie.com/2005/about-em/comment-page-1/#comment-11348 Suhas Dhoke Mon, 05 Mar 2007 06:17:02 +0000 http://nickcowie.com/?p=8#comment-11348 Where from we know the default font-size (14px, 16px, etc) of client's machine ? Where from we know the default font-size (14px, 16px, etc) of client’s machine ?

]]> By: germworks.net » Blog Archive » JP2 Designs update http://nickcowie.com/2005/about-em/comment-page-1/#comment-5107 germworks.net » Blog Archive » JP2 Designs update Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:08:18 +0000 http://nickcowie.com/?p=8#comment-5107 [...] So the question I have yet to answered is do you use pixels, em or percentage or both??? For JP2 Designs I used percenatge, next website I may use em like the way CLAG does in his artcile. Hear is a few articles on em. em explained by nick cowie and em explained by clag. It is alot of fiddling and playing around as I myself have spent a few hours just getting it looking descent. [...] […] So the question I have yet to answered is do you use pixels, em or percentage or both??? For JP2 Designs I used percenatge, next website I may use em like the way CLAG does in his artcile. Hear is a few articles on em. em explained by nick cowie and em explained by clag. It is alot of fiddling and playing around as I myself have spent a few hours just getting it looking descent. […]

]]> By: A Different Opinion » Blog Archive » A little less Um and Ah about Em http://nickcowie.com/2005/about-em/comment-page-1/#comment-3601 A Different Opinion » Blog Archive » A little less Um and Ah about Em Sun, 05 Nov 2006 23:56:05 +0000 http://nickcowie.com/?p=8#comment-3601 [...] http://nickcowie.com/2005/about-em/ [...] […] http://nickcowie.com/2005/about-em/ […]

]]> By: Nick http://nickcowie.com/2005/about-em/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Nick Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:33:16 +0000 http://nickcowie.com/?p=8#comment-11 <p>There where a few posts on the WSG (Web Standards Group) mailing list about ems and I received some feedback regarding this About em commentary, so I did some more investigating and experimenting see <a href="http://nickcowie.com/2005/more-about-en/">More about em</a></p> There where a few posts on the WSG (Web Standards Group) mailing list about ems and I received some feedback regarding this About em commentary, so I did some more investigating and experimenting see More about em

]]> By: nick http://nickcowie.com/2005/about-em/comment-page-1/#comment-10 nick Sun, 25 Sep 2005 06:57:45 +0000 http://nickcowie.com/?p=8#comment-10 Ooops I temporarily lost the image from IE6 which shows 20 uppercase Ms in Times New Roman really do equal 20em, at least in IE6. It also works in Firefox on a PC as long as the font is set at 100%, but because how this page works with varying the font size, I can not show you here. Ooops I temporarily lost the image from IE6 which shows 20 uppercase Ms in Times New Roman really do equal 20em, at least in IE6. It also works in Firefox on a PC as long as the font is set at 100%, but because how this page works with varying the font size, I can not show you here.

]]> By: Gene Falck http://nickcowie.com/2005/about-em/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Gene Falck Sun, 25 Sep 2005 04:26:06 +0000 http://nickcowie.com/?p=8#comment-8 I see varying length sequences of M's in the first three boxes as I think you intended in Mozilla 1.7 on WinXP pro with SP2. Maybe others not on IE won't have to take your word for it! Very interesting. I see varying length sequences of M’s in the first three boxes as I think you
intended in Mozilla 1.7 on WinXP pro with SP2. Maybe others not on IE won’t
have to take your word for it! Very interesting.

]]> By: James http://nickcowie.com/2005/about-em/comment-page-1/#comment-6 James Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:36:00 +0000 http://nickcowie.com/?p=8#comment-6 Nice work with the elastic layout. Site looks good, will have to check it once in a while. Nice work with the elastic layout. Site looks good, will have to check it once in a while.

]]> By: nick http://nickcowie.com/2005/about-em/comment-page-1/#comment-5 nick Fri, 23 Sep 2005 03:02:08 +0000 http://nickcowie.com/?p=8#comment-5 Richard Rutter's <a href="http://www.clagnut.com/blog/348/" rel="nofollow">How to size text using ems</a> is another article on the subject of ems and the comments are as interesting as the post. Richard Rutter’s How to size text using ems is another article on the subject of ems and the comments are as interesting as the post.

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