Using decimal percentage values in responsive design
Divya takes a look at why we’re using so many decimals places when it comes to percentage based widths. why, Why, WHY?
At work I get many samples of code to be reviewed, most of them with a warning ‘only works in Chrome’. Nevertheless, I open these pages in Safari & mostly they work. Yesterday I came across something that didn’t. This post is a result of that investigation.
The page layout was broken in Safari and as I turned on the Inspector, I noticed the way the values were being specified:
margin: 0 0 0 6.3124621208203820812122%; width: 48.121212121212121212121212%(The values are not the same as the ones I saw in the code, but the number of decimals used is similar)
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