px vs em revisited
px vs em revisited
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ETM, you obviously know your stuff and the above represented my thinking too for a long time. But when you get down to it, what was the reason for using ems in the first place? The rationale I always heard was the one in the A List Apart article linked above - preserving the ability to zoom text in older version of IE.
So considering hardly anyone uses those old IE browsers anymore (and Microsoft has officially started a "deathwatch" for IE6), what's the point of going to the trouble of using ems?
- I still feel in some regards it's a best practice, but I do agree it's importance is fading.ETM