[PLUG] Re: css questions

Ali Corbin ali.corbin at gmail.com
Sun Jul 31 01:02:08 UTC 2005


On 7/30/05, Michael Rasmussen <mikeraz at patch.com> wrote:
> Ali Corbin wrote:
> > I tried that one first.
> >
> > em is the size of an 'M', the widest character in the alphabet.
> >
> > Since gmail uses a proporation font, the window ended up being
> > extraordinarily wide.
> 
> Since we're now aware that the em is sized based on the widest character
> and we knew alreacy the not all characters are that wide, we can  no
> decide that in most cases the mix of letters will come out to, say,
> 70 em.  Using that there will be the right amount of space that
> grows or shrinks as you change your disply font or its size.

Or re-style gmail to use a monospace font, which, as I think about it,
would be a better way to display email.  (Those ascii art diagrams
that sometimes show up here just don't cut it in a proportional font.)

Ali



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