- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 13:29:31 +0000 (GMT)
- To: www-style@w3.org
> Actually, I would have to say that in the context of CSS, it would > be best to not require that 1cm = 10mm exactly. Here's why: I think that CSS should favour the user in this context. Most users won't have read the specification or appreciated the subtlety, so will be upset if some implementations cause two constructs to be a pixel off because one was spaced as a large number of mm widths and the other one as a single cm width. More of a problem here is that the individual mm widths probably get rounded to pixel boundaries, which will encourage people to use pixel widths, when these are the worst units to use from media independence and accessibility points of view. > same as 13mm for the same reasons that 1.3 * 10 might not equal > 13 on a binary computer. Doing arithmetic in decimal doesn't seem a great hardship. If you want to speed it up internally, for repeated uses, you can always convert to rational binary (13/10).
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