- From: Justin Greene <jgreene@greene.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 14:42:02 -0300
- To: www-style@www10.w3.org
Bert Bos wrote... >** font.size > >If we allow absolute sizes like point, the author must be aware that >the UA will only use these sizes as relative to a certain unit that >depends on the occasion. If I project a page on a video wall, my >software will interpret `point' to be about a centimeter, but when I >print it on a 35mm slide, a `point' will be more like 0.01 mm. > >A unit like `pixels' that is neither relative nor absolute will be >even more problematic, since no relation to any other size can be >assumed. I guess the definition of `pixel' will be: in the case of an >application that shows the document at about arm's length, a `pixel' >is a unit of length between approximately 0.20 and 0.35 mm chosen by >the application so that n pixels is visually different from (n+1) >pixels, for n = 0, 1, 2,...N; other types of applications can extend >this definition as appropriate. My take on font size if I may, is that actual font size is not so important (from a sytlesheet standpoint) but rather the relative sizes of the different elements to a base size which I expect the user will be setting in most cases. For example H6=base*110, H5=base*120...H1=base*160. After configuring the default relationships, they could be overridden one by one through the use of additional stylesheets by rededining the specific instance of usage. - Justin Greene : jgreene@greene.com : http://www.greene.com Greene COMMUNICATIONS Design, inc., Internet Development Group 216 West 18th St., Floor 12 : New York City : 10011 : 212-242-9308
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