- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:47:13 +0200
- To: Sergiu Dumitriu <sergiu@xwiki.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Wednesday 2008-10-22 19:02 +0200, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: > A few comments on the media queries draft published on October 15th, 2008. > Section 4.13, grid > Typo: "Since the exact *with* of an ‘em’..." > > Also, I'm not sure that this phrasing best describes the situation. An > 'em' always occupies exactly a cell, so we can easily determine this width. I suppose the point is that you can't determine its value in physical units (e.g., 'cm', 'in') and perhaps even 'px'. > Should the 'ex' be also described, since it has a similar meaning? Frankly, it seems a little odd to me for the media queries spec to define what an 'em' means on tty devices. It seems like that should be left to the Values and Units spec. > Section 5, Values > Is 'solidus' the best term? Wikipedia states that the solidus is > actually U+2044, maybe authors will be inclined to use that symbol > instead of the forward slash. I think Wikipedia is wrong here. UnicodeData.txt from the Unicode database describes U+2044 as "FRACTION SLASH" and U+002F as "SOLIDUS". -David -- L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ Mozilla Corporation http://www.mozilla.com/
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