- From: Christoph Päper via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 06:48:26 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
If the display device is anchored on physical units, an actual inch is exactly `1in` is exactly `96px` (and pixels may be meaningless in that environment otherwise). However, screens are the predominant output medium for browsers and they are anchored on a logical to physical pixel ratio. This, in fact, is an optical measure because unlike physical size it already factors in typical viewing distances. `opsz` retains the type designerʼs illusion (or, put nicer: informed assumption) that the physical size of the text using their font tells them something about the available output device resolution (e.g. re ink sinks) or its textual role (e.g. heading) in advance. It hardly does. -- GitHub Notification of comment by Crissov Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/4430#issuecomment-635142357 using your GitHub account
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