- From: Matthew Brealey <webmaster@richinstyle.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 10:20:55 +0100
- To: Rowland Shaw <Rowland.Shaw@seagatesoftware.com>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
Rowland Shaw wrote: > > What are people's views on preference?? I've become embroiled in a couple of > debates recently where people have been defending the good old "px" unit, > which I think could be potentially dangerous (well, from the point of view > of supporting people with large screens and the disabled) The archives of the comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets contain extensive debates on this subject. > For reference, the units are defined as being: > 1pt == 1/72 inch (device independent for physical size) > 1px == 1 pixel (device dependent for physical size) (No - see the belowcited URL) > My personal preference would be to suggest using pt. (or pica or cm etc) I disagree strongly - see http://richinstyle.com/masterclass/lengths.html (Unfortunately most WYSIWYG tools do to - products such as Dreamweaver and all Microsoft products use points). > On a Windows machine with "small fonts" a screen resoultion of 72dpi is > assumed, with "large fonts" it uses 96dpi - as for other platforms, I cannot > say... Screenshots are at http://richinstyle.com/mac.png and http://richinstyle.com/windows.png ----------------------------------- Please visit http://RichInStyle.com. Featuring: MySite: customizable styles. AlwaysWork style Browser bug table covering all CSS2 with links to descriptions. Lists of > 1000 browser bugs Websafe Colorizer CSS2, CSS1 and HTML4 tutorials. CSS masterclass CSS2 test suite: 5000++ tests and 300+ test pages.
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