- From: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 14:37:35 +0100 (MET)
- To: Charles Peyton Taylor <CTaylor@wposmtp.nps.navy.mil>, www-style@w3.org
On Feb 5, 12:38pm, Charles Peyton Taylor wrote: > I *thought* that em's were the width of the letter "m" in > a font, but the spec says that it's equal to the height of > the elements font [2], so what do I know? The reason it is called an 'em" as opposed to, say, an 'eye' is that these two measurements are frequently the same for 'M' and the height of the font is generally a more readilly accessible item of information than the width of a particular character. > It makes sense, > though, that ems are "m"s, especially when exs are "x"s. Right. > Also, "IE" is not necessarily what you > might think of as being "IE" because the Mac version does > things that the W95 version doesn't; yes - folks, please quote platform as well as version when discussing behaviour. Of course, Win95 users might not have noticed that a Mac version is available which is fair enough. Well, now they know ;-) -- 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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