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[Adam Ruppe]

On 5/31/10, "Jérôme M. Berger" <jeberger at free.fr> wrote:
> 	The problem is that px is not even theoretically reliable: it
> depends on the screen you are viewing the page on.

That's true, it definitely changes across different screens.

I'm probably biased by the fact that the majority of the sites I've
been doing are very picture and video heavy - the pixel measurements
are always the right size relative to the images, which are also sized
in pixels.

>Pt is an absolute measure
> (there are exactly 72 points in an inch)

Huh, I read somewhere that it wasn't defined on screen, but only for
printers. I guess I was wrong - the measuring tape agrees with you.
Though, it still comes out different on my Linux box than it does on
the designer's Mac, leading to bug reports whenever I try it.  I
really don't know why, but I've gotta deal with it somehow.

Though, even so, this still isn't an ideal measure. One inch on my
television is a different beast than one inch on my monitor, since I
sit much farther away from the TV... percents would be fine, but they
don't work well for the rest of the page content, so the fonts start
overflowing from images. Gah, the web sucks.

> 	Unfortunately, that doesn't work: it is perfectly legitimate for
> some text to be smaller (for example the text at the bottom of the
> page that says "last changed on..." or "made with...")

Meh, not to me. It is already at the bottom, so it is out of the way.
The small size just complicates it if I do care. I feel the same way
about grey on grey text. Bah!

> 	Yes, it is possible to scale pages, but that's a pain and shouldn't
> be necessary anyway. I've configured my browser so that the default
> font size (and the default font for that matter) is the one I find
> most comfortable to read text. A web site which expects people to
> actually *read* the contents should respect those choices (a web
> site whose contents is mostly pictures is another matter entirely).

Right. That's why all the sites I do for myself just don't specify
size at all; trust the user in size, font, color - pretty much
everything.

But, the sites for clients are different - lots of images and really
picky reviewers mean pixels it is.