- From: Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@kozea.fr>
- Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:15:41 +0200
- To: "Dan B." <danb@kempt.net>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
Le 04/10/2012 22:48, Dan B. a écrit : > Felix Miata wrote: >> >... > > IOW, author/designers are_never_ in position to choose the >> >optimal base sizing unit for anywhere but the displays they're viewing. >> > >> >What standards should be pushing for is for authors for the vast majority >> >of pages to choose only proportions among object sizes without regard to >> >absolute size, and for the users of the user agents to choose the >> >appropriate base sizes for each's own environment. ... >> > >> >The dominant text size on virtually every page should be 1rem. Virtually >> >everything that needs to be some other size should be sized as some multiple >> >or fraction of that user-defined base size. Authors get to choose >> >proportions. Users get to define the actual sizes that those proportions >> >produce as displayed results, .... Hi, I haven’t followed the original thread so I don’t know what the original question was, but isn’t this already the case? I think that all browsers have some kind of zoom. The author decides of the proportions of various elements in a document, and the user (can) use zoom to adapt these to their device. Having units such as 'px' and 'cm' and calling them "absolute" is a bit misleading, but when you account for zoom they’re effectively relative. Cheers, -- Simon Sapin
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