RE: Are centimeters second class units?

Isn't the point here though that you cannot develop a reusable
objects that can be placed to different drawings?  Doesn't
using arbitrary measurement units requires one to know the
viewbox "dimensions" that are going to be used in advance?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arnold, Curt [mailto:Curt.Arnold@hyprotech.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 11:26 AM
> To: 'Elliotte Rusty Harold'
> Cc: 'www-svg@w3.org'
> Subject: RE: Are centimeters second class units?
> 
> 
> You could always use foreign attributes or elements to 
> contain the actual physical dimensions.  These wouldn't be 
> used by SVG, but they would keep the information handy for 
> your scripts so that if you
> do something like stretch a room, you wouldn't stretch all 
> the furniture also.
>