On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote: > My recollection is that we first abandoned pt being a physical unit because > doing that instead of the fixed 4/3 ratio made a huge number of Web sites > display in a broken way on Mac, since the default DPI tended not to match > what is typical on Windows. I don't think we want to go back to that world. > I changed my mind after that email. Making pt etc correspond to actual physical measurements on screens doesn't make sense, even apart from compatibility issues. Rob -- "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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