- From: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:22:22 -0700
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Oct 26, 2011, at 10:04 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 10/26/11 12:47 PM, Brian Blakely wrote: >> David, this is exactly why factual physical units are really, really >> important and useful. A screen that will be viewed at TV-distance is >> likely a large display (e.g. a TV). > > Yes, but the converse is not true. A large display per se tells you absolutely nothing about distance. Maybe it's a TV to be viewed from 18 feet, and maybe it's a wall-mounted touchscreen for a game (these are starting to appear in airports). You just don't know. Right. Another similar case is flat screen TVs being used as posters. I see these in department stores all the time (often turned vertically), and the viewing distance is often within arms reach or so.
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