  Re: [css3-values] Physical length units  From: Felix Miata
<mrmazda@earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:48:40 -0500
Message-ID: <4F41D0A8.3080904@earthlink.net> To: www-
style@w3.org On 2012/02/19 23:58 (GMT+0200) Lea Verou composed:
A truly sad state. :-(  > ems to increase or decrease it as
necessary. That root font-size would > be much better off with
truemm.  On the contrary. Both absolute sizes and px sizes
completely disregard user  environment and settings. There's no
material difference in how bad either  are compared to the
other. They're different to be sure, but both bad. Except  for
those still supporting antique M$ browsers, most of the
remaining time,  there is no valid reason to set _any_ size on
the root, which leaves the  visitors' defaults defining 1rem,
presumptively ideal in their environments.  > 8mm (physical mm)
is always 8mm so if 8mm is sufficient to make > type legible in
one screen, it will be in all screens. 30 (device) > pixels on
the other hand might be legible in a scree