Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:11:04AM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> Even if points are not precise unit in CSS because of browser and OS >> problems most users can set their DPI in their preferences if it is >> not automatically determined from screen size (unless they are running >> a particularly abhorrent browser + OS combination). >> >> Once you set the DPI properly sites designed in points, mm or em >> should be reasonably readable for you. > > Not really, at least as far as points/mm are concerned[1], assuming that > by "properly" you mean "determined from screen size". > > Setting your browser/OS DPI setting to match the physical DPI of your > display means that 12pt text on the screen will be the same size as 12pt > text on a printed page. However, this does not mean that the text will > be readable if, say, the screen is an HDTV and you're sitting on the far > side of the room. > > I would argue that display DPI should be based on what the user finds > most usable in their particular environment and physical screen DPI > should be completely ignored except in a handful of special cases, such > as computers being used for print design, where it's actually important > to be able to clearly relate the screen display to the size of a > physical object. But, then, I would also argue that, aside from those > few special cases, DPI should be abandoned when dealing with computer > displays, as trying to relate on-screen display sizes to physical sizes > is fundamentally misguided, since you have no way of knowing whether the > user wants ultra-dense display to fit on their iPhone or five-inch-high > text for their gigantic HD rig.
Or my boss, who runs his 17" 1280x1024 twin displays at 800x600 so he can get a desktop text size he can read. -- David gn...@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
