-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Seems Pixel is a bit stuborn today:)
On Thursday 21 March 2002 17:19, you wrote: > quite weird, i thought web pages were mostly pixel-based. mostly != all. Did you ever wrote HTML? You can give fontsize in pixels, points and cm. Although IIRC netscape 4.x (on a side note, which LM considers obsolete :-P) doesn't work with the cm stuff. > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The Gimp uses it 2, IIRC. > > what for? once again gimp is pixel-based. Did you ever install or use The GIMP? You can give image and canvas sizes in pixels, points, inches, millimeters and a lot more. Sometimes, people happen to want to make a 10x20 cm image and display it true size. When installing GIMP for the first time it even ask you to measure a bar on the screen BY HAND (this is terribly user-unfriendly, imagine Photoshop doing this), because setting acquired from the X server are 'unreliable', which is not very strange since nobody cares to set DisplaySize. > what for? font size again? Even if no programs would use it (and we just established that some very common programs do), it would still be a good thing to set this because software interacting with a user should be able "know" what the user is seeing on the screen. This is because it facilitates IMHO good user-friendly software design. Danny - -- "`Credit?' he said. `Aaaargggh...' These two words are usually coupled together in the Old Pink Dog Bar." - - Ford in a spot of bother. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8mjNWaeiN+EU2vEIRApFvAKCLo0oDxN5Ou7FHOZsm+ppNiTj+wQCfWodQ PpynGdnECdt6gtbxR1Ikt/g= =zk37 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
