- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@niksula.hut.fi>
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 18:01:13 +0300
- To: www-style@w3.org
The CSS specs including the CSS3 "Values and Units" WD categorizes pc, pt, mm, in and cm as "absolute" units.[1] It seems to me that the use of the word "absolute" confuses people who tend to think that pixels are absolute in the context of computer graphics. How about calling mm, cm, pt, pc and in "physical units", %, ex and em "relative units" and px "the pixel unit"? That way the confusion caused by different interpretations of what is "absolute" could be avoided. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-css3-values-20010713/#lengths -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@niksula.hut.fi http://www.hut.fi/u/hsivonen/
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