#+title: CSS failings
#&summary
A travel through my past Cascading Style Sheets mistakes
#&
#+license: bysa

* CSS failings

Once, I did not know about Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS. I knew HTML... What
else would there be to know?

Oh, and I knew the =font= tag. It's safe to say my websites were not optimal.


** px in font-size

First, my apologies for not using the em&emph unit in font-size attributes. For
years I have consistently used the px&emph unit when setting the sizes of
fonts. I recently found out how wrong this is, how an incredibly arrogant
offense to the universe it is, and I have begun correcting this mistake.

Why is it wrong, you ask? I once thought about that, because I had read
somewhere that it was best to use em&emph. But I didn't fully understand the
unit, and I certainly didn't want my precious design to be viewed differently
by different users! I wanted to force every user to view the exact same render
of my pages. This was not ill-meant; I think it originated because of general
browser incompabilities and was then taken to an unfortunate extreme.

Essentially, it's wrong because it {forces the user to view the text in a
specific size}&emph.

If I had read that earlier on, I wouldn't have made so many px-based CSS's.
