- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:17:48 -0700
- To: Stephen Zilles <szilles@adobe.com>
- CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On 06/29/2010 06:12 PM, Stephen Zilles wrote: > > The point, "pt" is just one of the absolute units that have been long > defined in CSS2 and have been used in other specs, such as SVG. The > relationships defined between the absolute units have existed for > longer than even CSS has existed and breaking that relationship would > need analysis of more than just CSS files. In particular, SVG files > are likely to use inches or centimeters for the graphic parts of a > drawing and points for the textual labels. If these no longer matched > there would be significant complaints. If we're talking about precedence, the mapping of 1mm to one millimeter is a much older convention (200+ years, with no significant variance in definitions) than the mapping of 72 points to the inch (~30 years?, with multiple alternative systems also in existence, e.g. Didot points, TeX points, etc.). :) The point about SVG, however, is important. XSL:FO at least does not have this problem. They have very precise definitions for their length units. http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/#d0e5752 ~fantasai
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