Windows Vista™ ushered in a new set of screen-optimized typefaces, touted as successors to the Core Web fonts we’ve all become accustomed to. Already, we’ve seen early adopters and trendsetters updating their font-familys to prioritize the newer fonts (Calibri, Cambria, and Segoe UI being current favorites).
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Lucida Grande is such a nice font to use in websites, but because it doesn’t come standard with Windows, we turn to Lucida Sans Unicode and Lucida Sans to make sure users get a similar look. Unfortunately, both typefaces have imperfections that make them less-than-worthy candidates for substitution. Oh, dear.
That annoying IE peekaboo bug just doesn’t know when to stop. Apparently, even IE7 exhibits this bug, and it appears to be worse than its predecessor. If you happen to be pressed for time (or are lazy to search the Internets for a solution), applying a couple of stylesheet rules to the affected element should solve most peekaboo problems for both IE6 and IE7:
position: relative; /* peekaboo bug fix for IE6 */ min-width: 0; /* peekaboo bug fix for IE7 */
For those of you working with relative font-sizes in your CSS, here is a basic equation for getting the exact size equivalent in ems, given a desired px value:
emr = pxt ÷ pxp, where
emr = result font size, in ems;
pxt = target font size, in px;
pxp = parent element’s font size, in px;
If you’ve ever had trouble establishing a naming standard for your CSS classes, or if you work closely with a developer who demands uniformity when assigning IDs elements, here are some conventions (as well as some of my personal preferences on usage) that should help you form effective, easy-to-remember and predictable names.
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