Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-ui] OS cursor size units and property (#12048)

> With the second case, I'm curious what the design considerations there are. Do you as a user really want your OS setting to change the size of other people's cursors shown on your screen? And if there's text attached to the cursor, would you want that to be based on your font preferences or your cursor preferences? I would expect the former.

I'm thinking more along the lines of that if I'm going to make a custom cursor and that cursor includes text that the size of the pointing part of the cursor aligns to the OS size. While the text size of the cursor aligns to the OS font size. However, the composition of that custom cursor being a DOM element would include use the OS cursor size in a CSS value somewhere.

```css
.my-custom-cursor {
  min-height: 1cur;
  min-width: 1cur;
  font-size: 1rem;
}
```

> I think you should already be able to adjust cursors based on light/dark mode, by changing the `cursor` value in a media query?

Yeah, probably not relevant to the discussion of handling size or the cursor. I was in thought about how we might have a DOM element represent a cursor and not something provided by the current `cursor` property.



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