RE: Some words about the terms "relative" and "absolute".

Yes, I agree, we should talk about functions rather than units.  The units would live in a technique, or even in multiple techniques that target different user agent functionality.

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From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Marco Bertoni
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 11:14 AM
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Subject: RE: Some words about the terms "relative" and "absolute".


Hi Cynthia, as I've told in my original post there are other CSS units that are scalable (also in IE6/WIN):

1) for fonts: em, percentages and absolute-keywords (e.g. medium, small, x-small etc.)

2) for containers: percentages and em.

But we must think at the future when IE/WIN will be able to make pixels scalable (as all the other browsers already do). So we should talk about functions rather than units and I agree that "scalable" is the right term to use.

Marco

Cynthia Shelly ha scritto:
> The term I like to use when describing this feature is "scalable", and
> then I go on to say that for CSS that means em and % for fonts, and em
> for containers.
>
> People seem to get this.  Any font experts on the list know if this is
> the correct technical term?
>