Re: User Agents Do Not Implement Absolute Length Units, Places Responsive Design in Jeopardy from Boris Zbarsky on 2011-10-06 (www-style@w3.org from October 2011)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 23:26:35 -0400
To: Alex Danilo <alex@abbra.com>
CC: Brian Blakely <anewpage.media@gmail.com>, www-style@w3.org
Message-ID: <4E8D1FEB.8070700@mit.edu>

On 10/5/11 6:49 PM, Alex Danilo wrote:
> Perhaps one important reason is that the size of a finger

Yes, I explicitly asked whether touch was the point.  This is exactly 
why Robert proposed "truemm": it really is needed to do touch interfaces 
sanely.  Of course media queries can also be written using it, if 
implemented....

-Boris

Received on Thursday, 6 October 2011 03:27:16 UTC