Default font size in gnome

Felix Miata mrmazda at ij.net
Sun Mar 1 02:16:50 UTC 2009


On 2009/02/28 12:38 (GMT+0100) Markus Hitter composed:

> ... with resolution independent rendering,  
> ... "px" is just a measurement unit,  
> just like "in" or "mm". Once the software gets this, it's perfectly  
> fine for web developers to ask for a "12pt" font.

No it won't, because pt, like mm and px, does not bear a known relationship
to the size the user has set equal to 1em. The user sets the size of em, and
the web page should respect it, by basing every size on 1em as the starting
point.
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