I don't really know if I need to do this, but I want to.
I've just been using dimensions like font-size: 100%; or font-size: 300%; depending on what looked good but I believe it is half-ass, like I should know exactly how it will look / should look depending on the browser window.
I was going to visually get an idea of how pixels looked, I mean right now I have been using percent divs, my specific div elements are roughly 288 pixels wide with varying heights depending on how many characters there are eg. lines which I will also limit, putting an ellipsis at the end after a certain number of characters but I want to do that according to the scale.
I was trying to use $window.height(); and $window.width; in conjunction with some php code I picked up that would send this to a file and then from here I would break this up, apply percentages and then declare the font-size in the css using php echo but I don't know if that works, so far from my attempt it doesn't... instead of getting window.height as 772, I get 35 but the width is the same. I'm just wondering if this is the wrong way to go about this.
<?php
require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'some_script.php');
?>
<script>
alert($(window).height());
alert($(window).width());
$(function() {
$.post('some_script.php', { width: window.height(), height: window.width() }, function(json) {
if(json.outcome == 'success') {
// do something with the knowledge possibly?
} else {
alert('Unable to let PHP know what the screen resolution is!');
}
},'json');
});
</script>
<head>
<style>
body {
background-color: #008000;
}
.mini-container {
font-size: <?php echo $modified_value; ?>;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="mini-container">
something something dark numbers
</div>
</body>
some_script.php
<?php
if(isset($_POST['width']) && isset($_POST['height'])) {
$_SESSION['screen_width'] = $_POST['width'];
$_SESSION['screen_height'] = $_POST['height'];
$modified_value = $_SESSION['screen_height']*0.2;
echo json_encode(array('outcome'=>'success'));
} else {
echo json_encode(array('outcome'=>'error','error'=>"Couldn't save dimension info"));
}
?>
Anyway, this idea isn't completely my plan, it's something I'm thinking of doing but I'm asking if I should even waste my time using this which is a bad idea. I don't know how font-size is measured, diagonally or height or width?
