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http://www.alistapart.com/stories/fear4/index.html
They recommend using pixels, which seems to be the recommendation of lots of folks -- not because pixels are a perfect answer, but because they offer the least worrisome problems right now. If browser support was what it "should" be, I think ems would be the answer because of cross-PLATFORM issues. But ems are improperly executed on NN4 and IE3.
We have another thread about font choices [webmasterworld.com], so in the interest of keeping our resources about font declarations easy to find, I'm locking this thread.
the designers...they insist that a page must perfectly execute the designer's intentions or it will fail aesthetically...so they end up using px...then they can blame the user for doing stupid things like increasing the font size to compensate for being partially sighted, or trying to browse the web on an unexpected device like a palm pilot or a mobile phone, or for using part sized windows...because it is exactly identical in all reasonable browsing situations...as any visitor who cares to look at the site on five or six different systems will be able to notice
then there are the webheads...who have given up on impossible goals such as uniform presentation...however the designers will point to the sites made by the webheads and say they look awful
the fact is that most web designers who have a design background are failing to reach their potential by constantly trying to recreate the media they initially trained to design for, or in which their tutors had experience...somewhere along the line the best web/graphic designers MUST start looking at web pages as something more complex and flexible than a picture on their monitor...because they are the ones with the artistic eye...the people that could make truly superb flexible web sites
but it won't happen whilst the designers' holy grail is uniformity over a limited range of browsing situations
