- From: Laurence Penney via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 13 May 2021 20:04:15 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
User agents have, in the context of their OS and device, already made significant decisions based on presumed distance. A fundamental result of this is the physical size of the `px` “magic unit” (and the derived `pt` unit): small on a watch, large on a TV. It may well be that, longer term, CSS needs an improved mechanism for determining apparent text size, in which case a new unit, say `pz`, might be proposed to be the default 1:1 opsz mapping. Methods of deriving `pz` from `px`, `pt`, physical size in points, screen distance, and so on are currently unknown, and AFAIK nobody is researching it separately from determining `px` as described above. Until then, `px` and `pt` are as good as it gets. I suggest we move forward with this proposal, and in parallel consider whether something like `pz` is a desirable addition. The advantage of an enhanced `font-optical-sizing` is that it provides browser makers and researchers a flexible and standards-based method to adjust opsz based on any number of factors. -- GitHub Notification of comment by Lorp Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/4430#issuecomment-840800966 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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