- From: David R. Stong <drs18@psu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 09:38:49 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
- Cc: "'Bailey, Bruce'" <Bruce.Bailey@ed.gov>, "John Foliot - WATS.ca" <foliot@wats.ca>, "B.K. DeLong" <bkdelong@pobox.com>
Francois Jordaan wrote: > >Indeed, .76em normally renders as 12px, and not 11px as I said. Francois, "em" is a relative measurement based on the font size being used, what ever it is. A percentage (or decimal) of that relative size is still relative. That's the whole point of using "ems" I'm sure that some default setting somewhere was used as a model to determine this number, but logic would call any such determination into immediate question. Or at least it should. -- David R. Stong Multimedia Specialist 3 Education Technology Services, a small unit within Information Technology Services, at The Pennsylvania State University 212 Rider Building II State College, PA 16801-4819
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