- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 16:23:52 -0800
- To: Wallace Hermano <wallacehermano@gmail.com>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
On 10/07/2013 04:42 AM, Wallace Hermano wrote: > Sugestion: > It's good put the definition of *em unity* and other units > on all documents of W3C as: > http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-values/#em-unit > http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-values/ > http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries/ because > the conception of the units is important. It's so confusing > using another sites like Adobe Glossary and Wikipedia. Hi Wallace, The CSS specs are there to define CSS concepts, not to provide the etymology of typographic terms. We discuss a bit the x-height because the 'ex' unit is related to the x-height... but since the 'em' is only historically (and not actually) related to the size of an "M", it's probably more confusing than helpful to add this kind of historical note. So I think it's better to leave the spec as-is, and let sites like Wikipedia provide the historical context. :) Let me know if that makes sense! ~fantasai
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