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Mark Phillips
13,124 PointsEms vs Pixels as breakpoints
Isn't it better to use EMs instead of Pixels for the breakpoints, as EMs account for user zoom on the page, whereas Pixels do not?
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Mark Phillips
13,124 PointsHaving fixed widths for layout and positioning seems counter-intuitive to responsive design, which by it's very nature is supposed to adjust and flow based on screen resolutions, user preferences for font-size and the like. If users change their base font sizes, and zoom up in their browsers, fixed width layouts will break as the pixels will not react to elements around them like ems would.
Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsI disagree Darrel Lyons I've moved over to using em's everywhere. I have a simple Sass mixin that lets me give it a px value and it outputs the correct em's for the CSS. I haven't found a downside yet, except to be careful about how em's are relative values to their parent...just gotta pay attention there.
Darrel Lyons
2,991 PointsFont sizes in EMs, layout and positioning in PXs. :)