Technical Blog

A bit of an about-face in my thinking has taken place recently.  A while back I wrote a blog post about how I think "em" units are worthless for their intended purpose, that is to say, scalable font design that can stretch or contract to accommodate changes to the font size.

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It's pretty buggy.  Lots of stuff coded purely to standards and not to a particular browser isn't rendering correctly.  All in all though, that's expected, this is not the final product, they're still hammering away on some pretty big things.

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Temperatures plummeted to new record lows in hell today on the recent news of an about-face to IE8's standards mode default.  If you haven't been living under a rock, I'm talking about the recent news that IE8 will, in fact, by default, act like IE8.

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I used to think that "em" units were the bee's knees.  The cat's meow.  The way it should be done.

Then I encountered weird bugs and design glitches and spent hours trying to figure out how to fix them. IE 5.5 was a real bear to whip into submission. IE 6.0 has some trouble with em units too.

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I've come, I've saw, I've done battle with the big blue "e"!  Curse you Internet Explorer!  Were you real, we'd have hunted you down and strung you from the gallows like the dog you are!

I will make you my bitch, if it's the last thing I do!

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Let's all have a love-in for Webkit, the first browser to officially support the new W3C Selectors API.

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Yes, you too can make IE your bitch, if you're determined and crass enough.

Throw your sensibilities about logic and standards out the window, because you don't need them here.

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