Re: Length unit relative to media width

Christian Roth wrote:
 > It seems also to me that it's the UA's
 > responsibility to scale values given in px unit according to the
 > assumed absolute size of 1px.
 >
 > This means that if you have designed your document with the assumption
 > of 1px=1/96in, it will look exactly the same in absolute size on every
 > monitor.

Not quite, since scaling a CSS "px" to 1.5 device pixels, eg, would lead 
to many rounding issues.  So I doubt UAs will ever scale a CSS "px" to 
non-integer numbers of device pixels.

Received on Thursday, 20 February 2003 12:14:57 UTC