- From: Dave J Woolley <david.woolley@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 19:31:42 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org
> From: William F. Hammond [SMTP:hammond@csc.albany.edu] > > It's %Length in the Dec 1999 DTD for HTML 4.01, where the same > attributes are also deprecated. That came out just before the XHTML [DJW:] OK I take back part of what I said, although I think the reasons are still good. It was changed from %Pixels to %Length between the 19980824 PR and the the final REC. It is %Pixels in 4.0 and 3.2. My own guess is that it was done to bring it in line with de facto authoring practice. > But -- except possibly for tiny border widths with current widely > distributed hardware -- rigid lengths make no sense in a scalable > presentation format. > [DJW:] HTML, of course, is not a presentation format. Which is why CSS was devised. -- --------------------------- DISCLAIMER --------------------------------- Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of BTS. >
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