Re: about the use of pixels as a unit for typography

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Shelby Moore <shelby@coolpage.com> wrote:
> We need a unit which is proportional to the viewer's comfortable
> psychophysic viewing size at current resolution on that device. To relieve
> us from deprecating pt, I would suggest that unit be equivalent
> psychophysically to 1 pt on book printed pages, so we can just re-use pt
> for this purpose.

Maybe rem does what you want?

http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-values/#the-rem-unit

Received on Tuesday, 12 October 2010 16:30:41 UTC