nuff-inverted
13 May 2005

nuff-respec.com inverted !!

I was adding a style switcher for larger fonts, because of IE’s lack of text resizing, somewhere in the process I accidentally pressed Ctrl-I …

Well I was creating a style switcher for that stupid IE, because of my decision to use pixel size fonts. Sure I could use percentages / ems … but that is really really not reliable. IE really has it wrong, and this upsets me, professionally I bow gracefully, but not here….

Alas, I realize that some people just don’t know better … I compromised and added a style switcher in upper right corner, very minimalistic, and maybe not clear, but I made the effort, right ??

I pressed Ctrl-I, and thought, Oh this looks COOL....
What’s the matter with me?

While in the process I took a screen shot, and pressed “Ctrl-I” instead of “Ctrl-O” to open a file … alas what i saw was visually curious… so i just wasted 2 hours making an alternate style sheet of my site inverted.

The really cool thing is if you take a screen shot and then invert it in your graphic editor of choice then you can see how close it is … the only thing that I could not change, unless I really hack textpattern, are the article images…

 

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what they saidwho said it
“the only thing that I could not change, unless I really hack textpattern, are the article images…”

can you change the images, to be included through one of the many IR techniques? if so, then I assume the change would be much easier than TextPattern hacks.		 2005-05-13
jc
look who’s hip with the kids…
http://cssvault.com/gallery/nuff_respec.php		 2005-05-15
jc
IE (as much as I hate it) doesn’t handle font sizes incorrectly, Absolute units should not be resizable, only relative units.
Which is why Opera abandoned text-sizing altogether and uses Page Zoom… (and where FF/NS has it wrong)		 2005-05-16
Closov
Hmm Closov … that was not my interpretation.

I was under the impression that this type of feature is a browser’s decision to enhance its own usability. Not based on any spec (that i know of), so left to their own minds what it should be.


If FF has it wrong, I think it is a good wrong. Otherwise there is really no true way to get pixel perfect fonts. Sure there are combinations of ems/percentages, but that is based on system defaults.

The thing which is a love hate relationship for me in IE, is the box model. IE ignored the spec, but I prefer their model, ( although i will not go against standards ) it makes more logical sense to me.		 2005-05-16
DannyB


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nuff-respec is a weblog written by daniel bulli a senior web programmer in boston, ma.
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