- From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 19:43:25 -0800
- To: "Peter Flynn" <pflynn@curia.ucc.ie>
- Cc: <www-html@www10.w3.org>
Peter Flynn wrote: > This is the best argument I've ever seen for NEVER using pixels as the > unit. People's screens are just too diverse (except on a corporate > intranet) for it to be meaningful. I argue not against font-relevant measurements -- say, frame size measured in points or basefont ems or sumsuch, but frames can also be used to hold only a bitmap, and in this case I would expect a pixel measurement to be reliable, so that a bitmap could be placed in a frame with assurance that it will not get arbitrarily cropped. Pixel-dimensioned frames are sized perfectly in MSIE, at any display resolution. Why would it be a problem? Is there a GUI API that doesn't take pixels as dimensional arguments? Netscape's inability to even keep the frame size consistent through resizing of a window is strange. "You can specify the size of the first frame as a fixed number of pixels, and the size of the other frames become relative to the available remaining space." -- Netscape David
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