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Posted by vunet.us on 04/19/07 20:43
On Apr 19, 3:11 pm, "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4...@centralva.net>
wrote:
> Ben C wrote:
> > On 2007-04-19, Ben C <spams...@spam.eggs> wrote:
> >> On 2007-04-19, Jonathan N. Little <lws4...@centralva.net> wrote:
> >>> Ben C wrote:
> >>>> On 2007-04-19, Toby A Inkster <usenet200...@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:
> >>>>> Ben C wrote:
>
> >>>>>> If you must have the last word, I suppose you could render your text to
> >>>>>> an image and use that.
> >>>>> Such font sizes are still variable. The font will appear larger on my 17"
> >>>>> desktop screen than it would on my 12" laptop screen.
> >>>> In centimetres, yes, but not in pixels?
> >>> Ah no, both are dependent on physical monitor size and current resolution...
> >> I suppose this depends on what you mean by a pixel. A monitor might have
> >> 1280x1024 pixels but the graphics card might be working to 640x512.
> >> It's the graphics card pixels that CSS things are sized to, which you
> >> can measure with KRuler, but not with a real ruler, or by counting
> >> screen pixels while looking through a physical magnifiying glass.
>
> > Sorry, rather ambiguous, I meant "nor" not "or".
>
> When one specifies pixels in a stylesheet of course is the "apparent"
> pixel on the monitor. Depending on the screen resolution the "displayed
> pixel" will be made up of more than one physical phosphor (CRT bias)
> pixel, it should anyway unless you have a really crappy monitor.
>
> But my point was regardless whether you use "px", or "physical units"
> like "cm" or "in" in your stylesheet the size of the element on the
> screen when you slap a ruler to it will vary depending on the monitor
> and the user resolution settings. The "physical units", cm, in, pt,
> ft... only make sense when you are printing the page.
>
> --
> Take care,
>
> Jonathan
> -------------------
> LITTLE WORKS STUDIOhttp://www.LittleWorksStudio.com
Many thanks to all of you for the input.
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