- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:27:42 -0700
- To: "Peter Sorotokin" <psorotok@adobe.com>
- Cc: public-css-testsuite@w3.org
On 9/11/06, Peter Sorotokin <psorotok@adobe.com> wrote: > > Some tests seem to assume that 96px = 1in (e.g. > http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/CSS2.1/current/t0803-c5501-mrgn-t-00-b-a.xht). > > Isn't that wrong assumption? Not for anything whose screen is at arm's length from the viewer's eyes, no. (It _is_ technically incorrect for projection screens, but in practice if a projection screen rendered 1in as a real inch -- say, 10px -- it would break a lot of existing content, so projection media UAs usually treat "1in" as being a relative unit and not a physical one. I expect in a few years we'll end up redefining the absolute units to take this into account.) -- Ian Hickson
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