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Re: Why not max/min-font-size? & extend them to other properties of sizes

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 13:29:53 -0700
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDA8B8zc4YzcjsPXwND7juh0Z3xaUuWNtKKerDeZgWrxCQ@mail.gmail.com>
To: Rafał Pietrak <rafal@ztk-rp.eu>
Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org> 
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Rafał Pietrak <rafal@ztk-rp.eu> wrote:
> Is it possible to think of a measure, which is proportional to the angular
> size of a feature at hand? according to: "as viewed at normal conditions for
> a particular display"?

That's what 'px' is.  And for that matter, what the other absolute
units are, as well, since they're defined as a fixed ratio with the px
unit; 1in is defined as 96px, etc.

~TJ
Received on Tuesday, 17 June 2014 20:30:40 UTC

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