Re: User Agents Do Not Implement Absolute Length Units, Places Responsive Design in Jeopardy from Boris Zbarsky on 2011-10-20 (www-style@w3.org from October 2011)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:16:54 -0400
To: www-style@w3.org
Message-ID: <4EA08FC6.20606@mit.edu>

On 10/20/11 5:03 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> 3. Introduce a switch that just decouples the px and other physical
> units, so the latter return to being "real" physical units.

Switch at what granularity?

This seems like it would lead to massive confusion, esp. when values are 
set via the CSSOM or come from different stylesheets and suddenly "pt" 
means different things in different contexts.

If your real issue with #1 is conversions, then we could introduce 
"true" parallels of all the physical units.  But are there actually use 
cases for using true physical "pt", say?

> So, we think that #3 seems like a good direction to pursue.

I think #3 (as well as #2, actually) would be an authoring nightmare.

-Boris

Received on Thursday, 20 October 2011 21:17:22 UTC