Tim and all, I note from the W3C doc on basic data types in CSS2 (1) that Relative units include: px: pixels, relative to the viewing device "Pixel units are relative to the resolution of the viewing device, i.e., most often a computer display. If the pixel density of the output device is very different from that of a typical computer display, the user agent (browser) should rescale pixel values." Is there a difference in terminology here? Ppixels are relative/scalable in regards to "physical" viewing devices, as are em & % units. But the following: "Make content scalable by using relative measures like em, px, percentages for specifying characteristics like sizes, width, etc." could lead a developer to believe that their text will be scalable, or rather sizable, within the content when viewed in a browser. While this is true with em & % units, it is not with px, right? One can scale fonts by allowing them to change the size through the browsers text size feature. The pixels units do not allow that. So is px "relative"? *1: http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/WD-css2-19980128/syndata.html *2: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2004JanMar/att-0247/wcag728.htm Thanks much, Sailesh Panchang Senior Accessibility Engineer Deque Systems,11180 Sunrise Valley Drive, 4th Floor, Reston VA 20191 Tel: 703-225-0380 Extension 105 E-mail: sailesh.panchang@deque.com Fax: 703-225-0387 * Look up <http://www.deque.com> *
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