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Posted by dorayme on 01/10/08 04:35
In article <m1zlveqre4.fsf@dot-app.org>,
Sherman Pendley <spamtrap@dot-app.org> wrote:
> richard <I.dont.care@do.you> writes:
>
> > Another thing, the way I see it, a screen is nothing more than a fancy
> > sheet of paper.
>
> With the "fancy" part being that the reader can resize it at will.
>
I am sure you are meaning the browser window...
>
> > Inches and points are defined by a standard that was
> > around well before electronics came into the world.
>
> You'd be right, if the translation from inches and points to pixels onscreen
> were reliably accurate. Sadly, it's not. :-(
>
> That 6in width in your style sheet might be anywhere from 4-8in wide on
> screen. That 10pt text might be a readable 12px on your monitor, but on
> mine it's 4px tall.
>
> It's not the *idea* of using physical units that's the problem; it's the
> fact that the implementation is unreliable at the moment.
>
The idea of using physical units *is* a problem quite apart from
the 'translation" trouble you mean (as I understand you). Simply
because it goes right against the idea of any fluid design meant
to adapt to any screen. If an author specifies his boxes in
inches, and it was faithfully translated onto every screen in the
world in so far as they can fit the boxes on so they are visible
without inordinate scrolling, there would still be the problem of
the "in so far". This latter problem is an independent problem to
the translation one. The OP is not right about anything and
furthermore, he is not the slightest bit interested in looking
into anything.
--
dorayme
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