I began sweeping my site early this morning. I was like a little kid running around with a laser gun. I was absolutely exuberant. Then, I ran into a problem using relative font sizes (thank you Amanda!). Apparently, even though my <h1>, <h2>, <h3>, and body text is percentage based now (that calculation damn near made me rip up XP's calculator for all the times I typed one thing wrong and got an ungodly number), IE doesn't like resizing my <h1>. So I deviated around that. Apparently, my ideal <h1> font size (22px) is not large or x-large. I don't have many options, but I opted to stay with percentages. After all, the header is big enough to read under most resolutions for the moment.
I also tried including this cute new bullet I made (
) — ah, how I love pixels — into the site. One, it's too big. Two, my sleep-deprived brain confused list-style-image for list-style-type so I ended up with pixel-bullets everywhere. Sleep 1, Ranjani 0.
I was more or less unimpressed with Internet Explorer 7 Beta, although I will continue to use it as my default IE, whereas Firefox is my default browser. For one, all the fonts are so blurry. How can the developers stand that? Second, the UI is confusing. Third, although some bugs were fixed (especially some padding errors), the Tan hack lives another day because IE hates its margins still.
If there was hope in the world at this point, it would come in the form of a lovely burrito for me :(
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Marie Claire said:
I changed a bit of my site lately too. I used to have bullets but I stopped using them. They show up a little differenly in MF and IE and I got fed up! Have a nice week xx
Posted on June 26, 2006 3:55 AM; Permalink
Shawna said:
Old post, but how about trying EM on for size? Clagnut has an awesome article on using them:
http://www.clagnut.com/blog/348/
Posted on July 5, 2006 9:43 AM; Permalink