Comments on: PixEm: Pixel to Em Converter

By: Coder Man

Coder Man — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:18:59 +0000

Hi admin, nice tool!
Why you don’t make a open source?

Thanks

By: Jai

Jai — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:14:15 +0000

You might find this useful as well. http://pixel2em.kleptomac.com
This provides an online pixels to em converter and you can also do a complete CSS file conversion.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:08:58 +0000

Some websites offer ways to enlarge the font size through links. All websites for governments have to have such links. If you have built your website in pixels you have to create an alternate stylesheet with alternate font sizes, line height and possibly box sizes.
If you build a website in “em” you can offer the user larger font by just setting the base font size of the body.of the page.

By: Evan Byrne

Evan Byrne — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:11:33 +0000

Question: what are the advantages of using em over px? Don’t say so that the user can zoom text, because all modern browsers can zoom text set with px.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:26:45 +0000

@n0nick: I created the program because I didn’t want to use webapps and don’t know how to create the program in languages like C. I think you can run ASP.NET programs on Linux with Mono, but I don’t have Linux, so I can’t say that it would work for sure. If you would like to use webapps, you could check out these websites:

http://riddle.pl/emcalc/
http://pxtoem.com/

By: yokko

yokko — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:00:22 +0000

For the really disabled who cannot figure out 14/12.

By: n0nick

n0nick — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:58:16 +0000

Very nice idea, will be better as a webapp and not a windows program.
(Can’t use it on my Linux dev environment)