- From: Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>
- Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 12:49:24 +0200
- To: Etan Wexler <ewexler@stickdog.com>
- Cc: www-style <www-style@w3.org>
Etan Wexler schreef: > In some situations, a unitless number makes perfect sense. (The > properties 'counter-increment', 'widows', and 'orphans' come to mind.) > But, mostly, we should avoid unitless numbers. How is a unitless number for an addition different from using a unitless number for a multiplication (as is the case with line-height, and would be with word-spacing)? That’s the whole idea of unitless numbers, they are used for pure mathematical operations where a unit is not appliccable. After all, if you have 5 times 1 meter, you don’t say "1m x 5m", but you say "1m x 5". Note by the way that CSS in SVG currently already makes wide use of unitless numbers. I believe this has not been approved by the CSS WG though. ~Grauw -- Ushiko-san! Kimi wa doushite, Ushiko-san nan da!!
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