- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:47:51 -0400
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
On 10/20/11 5:23 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >> This seems like it would lead to massive confusion, esp. when values are set >> via the CSSOM or come from different stylesheets and suddenly "pt" means >> different things in different contexts. > > Global scope. Yes, it would lead to confusion if other stylesheets > were included which assumed the normal anchoring, but them's the > breaks. Author your sheets consistently. That's a tough requirement where inline style on HTML you pull in from elsewhere is involved.... > Apparently there are use-cases for true physical "in", given Brian's > previous emails. If "in" and "mm" are both useful, I would assume > that "cm" is useful too. And at that point it would be less confusing > to just do all the physical units for consistency. I would personally be fine with that. The implementation burden is obviously pretty low, since converting them all to a single true unit is trivial. The spec surface is a bit bigger than having a single "true" unit, but I think this is by far a lesser evil than magic global switches. -Boris
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