RE: Some words about the terms "relative" and "absolute".

Hi Cynthia, as I've told in my original post there are other CSS units that are scalable (also in IE6/WIN):

1) for fonts: em, percentages and absolute-keywords (e.g. medium, small, x-small etc.)

2) for containers: percentages and em.

But we must think at the future when IE/WIN will be able to make pixels scalable (as all the other browsers already do). So we should talk about functions rather than units and I agree that "scalable" is the right term to use.

Marco

Cynthia Shelly ha scritto:
> The term I like to use when describing this feature is "scalable", and then I
> go on to say that for CSS that means em and % for fonts, and em for
> containers.
>
> People seem to get this.  Any font experts on the list know if this is the
> correct technical term?
>