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Sorry, I misread.

The annoying aspect to me isn't the change in dimensions, but the inaccurate baselines. If we could reliably align text based on its baseline it wouldn't be an issue. "align-items: baseline" would be brilliant if it actually worked cross-browser.

It's pretty telling that Github doesn't even bother to solve the issue in their redesign, they've seemed to write off Firefox text alignment idiosyncrasies.

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It would have been great had I known details like this much earlier in my career, but when people talked then about "pixel perfect" designs, I don't think most people understood then what sacrifices you have to make to do so! Box size calculations should be the same, I think, surely. But text specifically has no such requirements for equal precision.

In truth, that type of work would require you to know the output sizes across every supported browser.

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