On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Rob Emenecker wrote >> >My question to you is why a box of 100px equals a inch >> measured by a >> >ruler and not what I expected 96px? >> > >> Don't understand the statement. > >I'll take a stab at this one... > I didn't make clear what I meant when I said "I don't understand the statement". I was querying why he would expect a 100px box to be 96px.
>If I have my Win OS set to 96 dpi (that is DOTS = PIXELS; DOTS <> POINTS) on >a 1920x1200 monitor the size of a ONE INCH object will be different if that >1920x1200 monitor is a 21", 24", on 15" laptop monitor. Of course. On paper inches are physical inches. On a screen inches are logical inches. Logical inches and physical inches are not the same thing as I explain here: http://www.emdpi.com/screendpi.html -- Richard Mason http://www.emdpi.com ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] 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/
