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madmacgames
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Apr 3, 2005, 03:27 AM
 
Does it bother the crap out of anyone else that Mozilla and IE render .75em as .7em and .77em as .8em (for example), at least on paragraph tags?

And so if you want to make your site accessible by using em on font sizes, you have to go in .1 increments, which doesn't give enough control

And also equally annoying that Safari renders 1em much larger than Mozilla or IE? (at least with verdana font)...

/rant
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Apr 14, 2005, 02:51 PM
 
Originally Posted by madmacgames
Does it bother the crap out of anyone else that Mozilla and IE render .75em as .7em and .77em as .8em (for example), at least on paragraph tags?

And so if you want to make your site accessible by using em on font sizes, you have to go in .1 increments, which doesn't give enough control

And also equally annoying that Safari renders 1em much larger than Mozilla or IE? (at least with verdana font)...

/rant
It does bug me a lot. For all the supposed standards-compliance of Mozilla, this is an example where they not only don't adhere to the standard, but they screw it up in a really inconsistent and infuriating way.
     
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Apr 14, 2005, 04:06 PM
 
As far as I've been able to tell, this isn't just a problem for the em unit. They have trouble dealing with single-digit percentage differences too: try working with text at 60%, 65%, and 70%.
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