- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:16:54 -0500
- To: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
- CC: Jonathan Kew <jonathan@jfkew.plus.com>, www-style mailing list <www-style@w3.org>, "Robert O'Callahan" <robert@ocallahan.org>
On 1/7/10 4:16 AM, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > Additionally, aside from layout liquidity (how many web pages > actually still make use of that, though?), the screen rendering would > be just a scaled version of the print rendering This is false, since font metrics for a 16px font are not just 4/3 those for a 12px font. > My vote goes to moving px from being a relative to being an absolute > unit of measure, equal to 3/4pt. Then there would be no unit at all to express "visible size" in CSS. That's what px do right now, and imo is the one thing that's most important for units used in CSS.... -Boris
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