- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 05:56:41 -0400
- To: www-style@w3.org
Etan Wexler wrote: > >> I've also seen discussion of allowing unitless numbers on >> 'word-spacing' in CSS3. Currently, 'word-spacing' adds a specific >> amount to the normal spacing (for example, 'word-spacing: 0.5em'). >> 'Word-spacing: 1.5' could mean that the word spacing is increased to >> 1.5 times its normal value. > > We don’t need unitless numbers to effect a multiplication of intrinsic > or normal values. A unit, say, 'norm', could give the same results. We > can specify that 'norm' dimensions compute to themselves, yielding good > results for inheritance in situations like the following example. I think multipliers are an appropriate use of unitless numbers. IIRC, all other units compute to an absolute measure and then inherit, so such multipliers are inherently different from units anyway. ~fantasai
Received on Thursday, 7 July 2005 09:58:00 UTC