- From: Peter Kerr <p.kerr@auckland.ac.nz>
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 20:15:55 +1300
- To: ve3ll@cogeco.ca
- Cc: www-amaya@w3.org
On 7/12/2007, at 11:52 AM, ve3ll@cogeco.ca wrote: > I did a quick test at 12pt and measured length for > lazy dog line ..... ff/opera/msie were all same at 123mm > amaya came in at 108mm ie about 88% of the length of > the others ---> once again the purist approach may not > be the best approach when developing a tool if it intended > for 'real world' designers who are producing product for all > users... a conform to concensus viewpoint may bring the > tool into mainstream use.... > can anyone justify the shortness --- are they all out of step > except our Jacque???? I'm not happy with expression of line length in mm (or inches ;-) There are too many variables with dot pitch in displays. I repeated the lazy dog line, outside of a <p> tag so it would render in the browser's default font size. Amaya 9.99 rendered both lines at 67mm on my lcd monitor with 0.265mm/pixel. The text was identical size to the screenshot posted by Leon. Safari 3.04 set with a default browser font of Times 12pt, rendered the 12 pt styled <p> at 88mm. and the unstyled body text line at 67 mm, the same as Amaya. Examining the pixel structure confirms a 33% difference. Rendering multiple lines of Lorem ipsum to fill an A4 "page" 842 pixels high, with "default" 12 pt. Times, both Amaya and Safari get 61 lines of 12/14, which is right. Firefox 2.0.0.2 draws 70 lines of 10/12, which is too small. MacOS 10.5.1 Peter Kerr
Received on Friday, 7 December 2007 07:16:26 UTC