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#+title: CSS failings
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#&summary
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A travel through my past Cascading Style Sheets mistakes
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#&
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#+license: bysa
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* CSS failings
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Once, I did not know about Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS. I knew HTML... What
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else would there be to know?
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Oh, and I knew the =font= tag. It's safe to say my websites were not optimal.
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** px in font-size
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First, my apologies for not using the em&emph unit in font-size attributes. For
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years I have consistently used the px&emph unit when setting the sizes of
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fonts. I recently found out how wrong this is, how an incredibly arrogant
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offense to the universe it is, and I have begun correcting this mistake.
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Why is it wrong, you ask? I once thought about that, because I had read
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somewhere that it was best to use em&emph. But I didn't fully understand the
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unit, and I certainly didn't want my precious design to be viewed differently
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by different users! I wanted to force every user to view the exact same render
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of my pages. This was not ill-meant; I think it originated because of general
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browser incompabilities and was then taken to an unfortunate extreme.
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Essentially, it's wrong because it {forces the user to view the text in a
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specific size}&emph.
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If I had read that earlier on, I wouldn't have made so many px-based CSS's.
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