[TYPO3-dev] Small font in Admin panel

[Steffen Kamper]

Hi,

the problem i saw is that it depends on the css used for FE, so it would be 
better imho to use px

vg Steffen

"Christopher Torgalson" <bedlamhotel at gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:mailman.3173.1209371709.18990.typo3-dev at lists.netfielders.de...
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Bjoern Pedersen
> <Bjoern.Pedersen at frm2.tum.de> wrote:
>> "John Angel" <johnange at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>  > Hi,
>>  >
>>  > Is it just me or admin panel font in FE preview is unreadable (Typo3 
>> 4.2)?
>>  >
>>  > font-size:0.6em -> font-size:0.8em
>>  >
>>
>>  Atleast I think the font-size definition ist really strange:
>>  the font size shall be 0.6 times the current width of a charakter.
>>  em should only be used for horizontal spacing, not for font sizes.
>>  The same would apply for ex (which is the height of an x in the
>>  current font). I would plead for a size in px or pt.
>
>
> There are several reasons why this is incorrect.
>
> * An em is essentially a square of the current font size--it has no
> relation to any *character* except to the extent that it will be as
> wide as the tallest characters in the font.
>
> * In CSS, font-size is relative and inherited, so .6em is a way of
> specifying text size in relation to the size of the font in the user's
> browser,
>
> * Ems make sense for vertical spacing as well as horizontal (since,
> i.e. you specify vertical values in terms of points, pixels etc and
> ems can be converted to specific values in those other units),
>
> * Points as units are entirely nonsensical in an electronic context
> *unless the material is being prepared for print* since it is an
> absolute measurement (approx 1/72 inch) that must be translated into
> pixels by the useragent--and a pixel has no fixed size (find out the
> size of a pixel on your cellular phone and on a 60 inch plasma TV for
> confirmation...),
>
> * When font sizes are specified in pixels, they cannot be resized on
> some browsers (restricted to the ever-popular IE family).
>
> So: the size may need to increase, but the unit does not need to change.
>
> -- 
> Christopher Torgalson
> http://www.typo3apprentice.com/