Re: Making pt a non-physical unit

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com
> wrote:

> If UAs make an effort instead to implement things properly,
> working around broken sites with something similar to the Quirks mode
> or other workaround used to deal with messy pages, it can be fixed.
>

I considered making pt non-physical in quirks mode only. However, given that
HTML email commonly contains font sizes in pt, I expect that there are
mailing list archives that present such email in standards mode. I don't see
how such archives can really be fixed, even if there was a will to fix them.

Rob
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