Talking and Writing

[binidj]

So I've finally succumbed to the insidious Skype (username Binidj if you're interested) and had got to step 2 of the install screens before becoming involved in my first conference call! Clearly this is more popular than GoogleTalk.

In other news (and appropos my last entry) I've discovered that, contrary to the advice in my O'Reilly Big Book of CSS, the secret to getting font sizes consistent between Internet Explorer and Firefox is to assign a set pixel value to the fonts rather than to assign general sizes (like "normal" or "small") ... having solved this I am now slightly better disposed toward Firefox than previously.

Comments

[invisible-al.livejournal.com]

Have you read Designing with Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman. It's got a lot of advice for doing CSS and standards compliant HTML 'in the trenchs' and now that I think about this it has a whole section on that particular problem [/barndoorclosed]. he was my first web guru when I started learning and he aint let me down yet :).

[binidj.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that suggestion ... it's now on my Amazon (order soon) list.

[wildwinter.livejournal.com]

Can't remember if we've had this conversation - but if you're doing any web development with Firefox (particularly CSS) then the Web Developer Extension is absolutely invaluable. Gives you all sorts of handy tools.

[binidj.livejournal.com]

I believe you have mentioned this ... but I'm still not entirely a fan of Firefox. I'll take a nervous peek though. =)