Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > >> Angela French wrote: >> >>> Is there no way to get "in between" sizes? >> Not on today's screens where a pixel is a screen-pixel. > > Modern technology often makes subpixels available. It is unclear how they > should relate to the pixel concept of CSS, which is rather vague - it's not > simply a screen pixel (and don't ask me what it really is by CSS specs).
According to a definition found courtesy of Google's famous define: function, "On a flat-panel display, one of the primary colour picture elements of which 3 make up a full colour capable pixel." So you have a one subpixel each for R, G, and B. Wikipedia explains it all in great detail: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering But it looks to me like subpixels have no usefulness to web designers. I use HTML Validator Lite, and deal with a lot of HTML that was formatted via Word. Word will quite happily specify the width of an item down to 5 decimals ("85.47315%"). When validated with HTML Validator Lite, the validator highlights these with a warning that these are "signs of bad design." ;-) -- David [EMAIL PROTECTED] authenticity, honesty, community ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
