Re: Making pt a non-physical unit

(Sorry Brad, forgot to send to list)

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jan 10, 2010, at 4:51 AM, Simetrical wrote:
>
> > I don't think you're ever going to educate all web authors that "12pt"
> > is unsuitable for the web when it works just fine in Word.
>
> Yeah, but that doesn't matter, because those sites have fixed widths that
> were designed to look good on a 20" monitor (or at least an 800px-wide one),
> so they are going to look bad on a dumb-phone anyway, or look fine on mobile
> Webkit.
>

The reason they look fine on mobile Webkit is because Webkit already makes
pt a non-physical unit, as I'm advocating here.

Rob
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"He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are
healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his
own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all." [Isaiah
53:5-6]

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