- From: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 10:59:38 -0700
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Cc: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>, "www-style@w3.org list" <www-style@w3.org>, "public-fx@w3.org" <public-fx@w3.org>
OK, I'll bite... On Jul 7, 2010, at 8:18 , Chris Lilley wrote: > > If they are more used to SVG (or some other vector format) and they are starting to apply that to HTML/CSS then they are surprised to find they need to add units 'even if it doesn't make sense'. > I'm wondering when it "doesn't make sense" to give units for a length value. Even the zero case makes sense (I think 0cm is well-defined)! Why isn't the suggestion "give units all the time, you know it makes sense and avoids the possibility that the author assumes X and the UA assumes Y" [1]. [1] http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric/ David Singer Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
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