What do you mean EM are compound ?
If the browser is set to 16px and the parent is 2.1em and the child is
set to 1.4em that would be 47.xx vw ?
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Once again, they are unrelated in the way you are showing here.
vw/vh units are related to the VIEWPORT dimensions. 1vm = 1% of the
viewport width, *whatever* it may be.
2.2em is a unit relative to a users browser preference setting AND/OR
the size set on a parent element. If browser preference is set at 16px
then 1em = 16px. EMs compound, so they can be tricky. So browser is
set to 16px, parent set to 2em, then child set to 2em will be
equivalent to 64px (16 x 2 x 2).
REMs, on the other hand, are relative to the root element (HTML) which
is the browser preference setting. So if the browser preference is
16px and you set an element to 1rem, NO MATTER WHERE IN THE DOM IT IS,
it will be equivalent to 16px;
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Speaking of which, can someone once again clarify, for example; 2.2em
would equal 4.4vw ?
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Sorry, that's just the typical way I hear of these types of things.
Newsletters or this list mainly.
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Thank you Tom. I suppose what I had in mind was a W3C-hosted list, but
if there is no such thing then pointers to derivative lists such as
these would be a good fallback.
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I subscribe to newsletters such as Frontend Focus, Alistapart (digest),
Versioning (less focused, but good), Responsive Design Weekly, CSS-tricks
and a couple others I can't think of right now. If I dig them up I will
reply again.
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 6:35 AM Philip Taylor <p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk> wrote:
It is only in the last few days that I have learned of the existence of vh
and vw units. I can already see just what an advance they represent, and I
am very sorry that I did not learn of their existence earlier. To which
list should I subscribe if I wish to be regularly and reliably informed of
changes to the CSS specification(s) ?
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