Re: [css3-values] Physical length units

I disagree.

Regardless, this is off topic.

On 22 February 2012 11:02, Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> wrote:
> On 2012/02/22 08:45 (GMT) Matthew Wilcox composed:
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>> Well that's never going to happen.
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> That what?
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>>  Designers size text, and I think
>> it's their moral responsibility to do so in fact.
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> Because the discussion is about sizing on the root element, changing the
> base size, the meaning of what you wrote is that it's the moral
> responsibility of designers to disrespect visitors by sizing text on the
> root element, to either disregard entirely or presume wrong the visitors'
> default settings. That's an oxymoron.
>
>
>>  The browser can
>> re-scale what we designers feel is an appropriate default, so there is
>> no loss for anyone.
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> Of course there is a loss. Disrespecting defaults means the visitor loses
> time and is aggravated in being required to apply a defensive action in
> response to your offensive assumption that it's even possible for you to
> know his default is wrong coupled, with asserting your ridiculous assumption
> via a change in base font size. The loss is more than you probably imagine.
> Many people who could and would use a computer don't or won't due to the
> bother and difficulties the pervasiveness of tiny web fonts brings them.
>
> Again, changing the base size is saying the defaults are wrong, something no
> designer can possibly know. And it's saying it's not OK for users to
> "re"-size in advance by conforming their defaults to their own requirements,
> but instead should reserve that action via zoom for individual pages after
> loading them, which to you is OK, and never mind that browsers have minimum
> size options that when used destroy your contextual sizing.
>
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>> Consider fonts where the x-height is considerably different.
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> Different than what? Absent scripting gyrations, which is outside the scope
> of CSS, you can't know what my default's x-height is any more than you know
> where my tax collector's grandfather was born.
>
>
>>  I know a
>> few where the default '16px' browsers use is visually far too small to
>> be comparable with the standard fonts.
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>
> Again, http://tobyinkster.co.uk/article/web-fonts/ addresses your assertion.
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>> It's my duty to adjust that.
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>
> Right, a "duty" to be disrespectful, since you don't know the meaning of
> size under this roof, my neighbor's roof or the anyone else's other than
> your own.
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>> I do it by editing font sizes on html, and it would be wrong of me not to.
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> Except as for correcting the legacy IE bug, it's always semantically wrong
> to apply any style whatsoever on the HTML element. And it's always rude to
> assume the visitors' defaults are wrong.
> http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/rudeweb.html
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