- From: Wallace Hermano <wallacehermano@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 11:42:50 +0000
- To: www-style@w3.org
- Message-ID: <CAHONeMym6V6_wtmXjTs1+uX58GgxXY5mF+OOD3NBAAD3FQ11xg@mail.gmail.com>
Sugestion: It's good put the definition of *em unity* and other units on all documents of W3C as: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-values/#em-unit http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-values/ http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries/ because the conception of the units is important. It's so confusing using another sites like Adobe Glossary and Wikipedia. Example from Adobe glossary: em, em space, em quad A common unit of measurement in typography. Em is traditionally defined as the width of the uppercase M in the current face and point size. It is more properly defined as simply the current point size. For example, in 12-point type, em is a distance of 12 points. http://www.adobe.com/uk/type/topics/glossary.html Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Em_%28typography%29 Example from a W3C site. But think this site is outdated The meaning of "em" has changed over the years. Not all fonts have the letter "M" in them (for example Chinese), but all fonts have a height. The term has therefore come to mean the height of the font - not the width of the letter "M". http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/css2em.htm Thanks.
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