px vs em revisited
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I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who has lost hours contemplating this issue!
About 6 months ago I thought it was time to revisit the issue, and I made a little cheat-sheet / explanation web page about it. This would make a great blog post, but I never have time to blog, so I posted it here. It might make more sense to me than to others, but feel free to ask any questions and I'll try to answer them.
http://evanwebdesign.com/font-si…
My method still uses ems, but like you said that's really only for IE 6 and IE 7. I made the conscious decision to stop supporting IE 6 for 2011, and there really aren't too many people browsing in IE 7 anymore either.
I think that for 2012 I'm going to switch back to px. I like the fact that px do not have the inheritance issues that ems do. For me, that makes them easier to work with.
Here's 1 question though that I don't know the answer to... How do px play out on mobile devices like iphone/ipad and android or blackberry phones? I never did any research or testing on that, but I'm guessing that they can handle px no problem. Am I correct?