- From: Laura Carlson <lcarlson@d.umn.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 06:06:38 -0500
- To: Andy Budd <andy@message.uk.com>, W <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
--On Tuesday, August 17, 2004 Andy Budd <andy@message.uk.com> wrote: > The old guidelines said that you were only supposed to use relative > units, however pixels are defined as relative units. fyi...Derek Featherstone wrote a related article "Pixels as Relative Units of Measure": http://www.wats.ca/articles/pixelsarerelative/65 He con concludes with,: "Pixels are a relative unit - relative to monitor resolution. % and em are relative to a browser setting, and it is the browser setting that matters for every day use, and I believe it is what matters for Checkpoint 3.4." Laura ___________________________________________ Laura L. Carlson Information Technology Systems and Services University of Minnesota Duluth Duluth, MN 55812-3009 http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/webdesign/
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