- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:43:45 -0500
- To: Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
On 1/7/10 10:38 AM, Ambrose LI wrote: > I don't understand why we are stressing the importance of physical > accuracy in projections. Do people expect units to measure as spec'd > when projected? I have no idea, but the spec says they should at the moment. Just like it says they should measure as spec'd on an iPhone. Or on an eye-glasses display. Or a contact lens display. That's what makes the physical units physical. That's also what makes them clearly nonsense for anything where you don't control the device; 12pt font on a contact lens display would be ... interesting. > When we spec 12pt on PowerPoint does it result in 12pt type on the projection > screen which looks like a tiny dot 15 ft away? No. That's precisely how Webkit and IE treat pt in general and how Robert is proposing Gecko treat pt. It's a clear violation of what the CSS spec says to do with pt at the moment. -Boris
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