- From: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 18:21:03 +0200 (MET)
- To: "David Perrell" <davidp@earthlink.net>, <wmperry@aventail.com>, "Chris Lilley" <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Cc: "Paul Prescod" <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>, "Todd Fahrner" <fahrner@pobox.com>, <www-style@w3.org>, <Jukka.Korpela@hut.fi>
On Apr 24, 8:38am, David Perrell wrote: > William M. Perry wrote: > > This will really only help with well-written author stylesheets. I > > haven't done a sampling, but if anybody has, I'd be interested in the > > percentage of sheets that actually _use_ relative font sizing versus > the 'I > > want this 26pt, dammit' philosophy. > > "26pt" _is_ relative on a computer display. That is not the meaning of relative font sizing in CSS1, as you are well aware. > A display resolves to pixels, not points, and the displayed size > of a point should be adjustable in the UI. I would direct you to the definition of a pixel in CSS, as well. So to get back to the original question - current usage tends to go for absolute rather than relative font sizing, I agree. This is partly an education issue and partly a case of people working around incomplete implementations. Also the widespread use of old X servers that use bitmapped fonts rather than scalable fonts may be a factor - people pick sizes they know they have good bitmaps for. I think this is teething trouble and that once there are examples of best practice then people will base their own stylesheets on these. > (WARNING!!! for anyone who wants to try this: Be sure you know how to > navigate the dialog box for setting the display using the keyboard. The > dialog box becomes much larger than the display area, and you will not > be able to see the controls that you used to make the adjustment! You > will be stuck with huge type FOREVER!!!) I think David just discovered why people who use huge type have specialy adapted computers rather than just using standard Windows software ;-) In particular, virtual desktops and a scrolling viewport are typically available in suchg a set-up. -- Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ] Graphics and Fonts Guy The World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/people/chris/ INRIA, Projet W3C chris@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 93 65 79 87 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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