Re: Timed Text format

Charles McCathieNevile writes:
 > 
 > I am thinking of sending in the following comment:
[...]

This is an excellent point, if you'll excuse the pun.

Specifying lengths in pixels is surely bad design anyway, since it
doesn't scale. The display of my laptop has a different resolution
from that of my desktop workstation, as the X Window System
configuration files of both computers indicate. Furthermore, my
printer has a much higher resolution than either of the displays. So,
if an author specifies lengths in pixels, the effect will be different
on each of these devices (bearing in mind that the vertical and
horizontal resolutions aren't the same on the screen displays). Under
these circusmtances I don't understand why an author would consider
pixels a suitable unit with which to specify lengths.

Received on Tuesday, 22 March 2005 02:54:01 UTC