- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 07:39:03 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Cc: public-cdf@w3.org
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Chris Lilley wrote: >> >> "px" in SVG has no relation to screen pixels, the unit "px" is defined >> to be equivalent to user units. > > Yes, exactly. Note the order. Note that this is not commutative. User > units are not defined to be equivalent to px. Px are defined to be > equivalent to user units. > > The difference is readily seen as soon as there is a viewBox or a > transform involved, ie most of the time. There is never any time in SVG where the following two property attribute/ value pairs will result in different results: <... font-size="7"> <... font-size="7px"> User units and "px" units are the same thing in SVG. It doesn't matter which "order" you think of it as. They are syntactically identical. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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