Re: [css-d] CSS inch?

2014-08-03 Thread Norman Fournier
Hello, Inch is a print measurement in North America because printing presses are specified in inches, and paper is sold in inches, monitors are spec'd in pixels, so if you want a pixel-perfect placement then pixels are the measurement to use. 99.9% of the time I try to keep things flexible and

Re: [css-d] CSS inch?

2014-08-03 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
On Aug 4, 2014, at 1:06 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2014-08-04 00:28 (GMT-0500) Karl DeSaulniers composed: > >> Can you use "in" for inches in css...? > > It's valid, but it may not mean what you think it means. For screen media it > can only mean a physical inch in old IE and Gecko browsers,

Re: [css-d] CSS inch?

2014-08-03 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
On Aug 4, 2014, at 1:04 AM, "Jukka K. Korpela" wrote: > 2014-08-04 8:28, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: > >> Can you use "in" for inches in css or is that just jQuery that does that? > > Yes, "in" has been a unit defined in CSS from the very beginning. Current > spec: > http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/syn

Re: [css-d] CSS inch?

2014-08-03 Thread Felix Miata
On 2014-08-04 00:28 (GMT-0500) Karl DeSaulniers composed: Can you use "in" for inches in css...? It's valid, but it may not mean what you think it means. For screen media it can only mean a physical inch in old IE and Gecko browsers, and in all Konqueror browsers configured to use the KHTML

Re: [css-d] CSS inch?

2014-08-03 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2014-08-04 8:28, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: Can you use "in" for inches in css or is that just jQuery that does that? Yes, "in" has been a unit defined in CSS from the very beginning. Current spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/syndata.html#length-units 1in equals 2.54cm (exactly). This correspond

Re: [css-d] CSS inch?

2014-08-03 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
On Aug 4, 2014, at 12:47 AM, Christopher Schmitt wrote: > >> >> Thanks Christopher. That is what I figured. Wasn't sure of a real case >> scenario that I would do inches except maybe an online proofing website or >> something that dealt with print pieces. >> Was more curious because I saw t

Re: [css-d] CSS inch?

2014-08-03 Thread Christopher Schmitt
On Aug 3, 2014, at 10:44 PM, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: > On Aug 4, 2014, at 12:39 AM, Christopher Schmitt > wrote: > >> >> On Aug 3, 2014, at 10:28 PM, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: >> >>> Can you use "in" for inches in css or is that just jQuery that does that? >> >> Yes, you can use “in” for

Re: [css-d] CSS inch?

2014-08-03 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
On Aug 4, 2014, at 12:39 AM, Christopher Schmitt wrote: > > On Aug 3, 2014, at 10:28 PM, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: > >> Can you use "in" for inches in css or is that just jQuery that does that? > > Yes, you can use “in” for inches CSS, but it’s probably not the best for > digital design. > >

Re: [css-d] CSS inch?

2014-08-03 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
Le 4 août 2014 à 14:28, Karl DeSaulniers a écrit : > Can you use "in" for inches in css or is that just jQuery that does that? http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-values/#absolute-lengths (only useful for print stylesheets, me thinks) Philippe -- Philippe Wittenbergh http://l-c-n.com/ __

Re: [css-d] CSS inch?

2014-08-03 Thread Christopher Schmitt
On Aug 3, 2014, at 10:28 PM, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: > Can you use "in" for inches in css or is that just jQuery that does that? Yes, you can use “in” for inches CSS, but it’s probably not the best for digital design. An inch for print is good since it’s easy and repeatable to measure an inch

[css-d] CSS inch?

2014-08-03 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Can you use "in" for inches in css or is that just jQuery that does that? Best, Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-