Re: [css-d] what font is being called?

2011-01-14 Thread Richard Mason
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Alan Gresley wrote I am not a programmer and I wouldn't know the first thing about building a UA since I not even sure what web language or languages are involved in the process. C++ -- Richard Mason http://www.emdp

Re: [css-d] what font is being called?

2011-01-13 Thread Richard Mason
chnical and specific | towards the end. I said the specs were 'aimed' at programmers, not 'exclusive to'. Your quote confirms this: "Implementors, however, should find all they need to build conforming user agents." So, a Software Requirement Specification also made ava

Re: [css-d] what font is being called?

2011-01-13 Thread Richard Mason
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote On Jan 13, 2011, at 12:48 PM, Richard Mason wrote: Speaking of CSS specs I'm always surprised that the spec authors don't get called out for the nonsense they put in them. A specification should tell an author (a programmer) what i

Re: [css-d] what font is being called?

2011-01-12 Thread Richard Mason
eir right mind would get values this way when the Operating System API's will give them the answer directly. -- Richard Mason http://www.emdpi.com __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss

Re: [css-d] what font is being called?

2011-01-11 Thread Richard Mason
fallback font will relate to the first-choice font, but it doesn't matter so I wouldn't bother anyway." Interesting :-) -- Richard Mason http://www.emdpi.com __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http

Re: [css-d] what font is being called?

2011-01-11 Thread Richard Mason
ratio of a font is not fixed but varies with font size. At http://www.emdpi.com/cssfontsizeadjust.html I have a download with graphs of aspect ratio v font size (10px to 50px) for a number of fonts. -- Richard Mason http://www.emdpi.com

Re: [css-d] tiny font in Safari and Chrome

2010-05-28 Thread Richard Mason
bsolute that authors are so fond of. -- 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 poli

Re: [css-d] Screen resolution?

2009-08-12 Thread Richard Mason
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Felix Miata wrote >On 2009/08/13 10:59 (GMT+1200) Richard Mason composed: > >> ... 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:

Re: [css-d] Screen resolution?

2009-08-12 Thread Richard Mason
ect 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 th

Re: [css-d] Screen resolution?

2009-08-12 Thread Richard Mason
ls Also there seems to be view that screen dpi can only be 96 or 120. Screen dpi can be adjusted in the Control Panel by small steps between 19 dpi and 480 dpi. The elastic ruler. http://www.emdpi.com/screendpi.html -- Richard Mason http://www.emdpi.com __

Re: [css-d] Font size dilemma

2009-03-16 Thread Richard Mason
ion from points to pixels via screen dpi is not required. http://www.emdpi.com/fontsize.html -- Richard Mason http://www.emdpi.com __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d Li

Re: [css-d] Font size dilemma

2009-03-15 Thread Richard Mason
;standard" means what here? The CSS spec tries to define a "standard pixel", and talks rubbish. Actually one pixel on your monitor is different to another pixel on your monitor at different times. If, say, you usually operate at 1280 * 1024 and then switch to 1024 * 768 then 20

Re: [css-d] Font sizing

2009-02-18 Thread Richard Mason
Not really. There is only a loose relationship between font size and how 'big' text looks on screen. http://www.emdpi.com/fontsize.html -- Richard Mason http://www.emdpi.com __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http

Re: [css-d] Font stack article

2009-01-12 Thread Richard Mason
ory address specified by &gm. One of the values returned in the structure is the top-left x,y co-ordinates of a box that completely encloses the glyph - so given that the box origin is 0,0 then gm.gmptGlyphOrigin.y (xHeight) is the height of the box. Now I'l

Re: [css-d] Font stack article

2009-01-11 Thread Richard Mason
writers put in a requirement that browser authors determine x-height and then, instead of leaving the programmers to implement the requirement, they tell them what the answers going to be - and get it wrong. -- Richard Mason http://www.emdpi.com _

Re: [css-d] Font stack article

2009-01-09 Thread Richard Mason
.. Reference [1] says "The example given clearly shows that the browser "knows" the x-height of "Times New Roman" to do the calculation.". That's wrong. Browsers do not know the x-height of a font because the Operating System doesn't know. http://www.

Re: [css-d] Maximum value for em

2008-02-07 Thread Richard Mason
al to it. One em is the font size of a font. If font size is 12px then one em is 12px. http://www.emdpi.com/emsquare.html -- Richard Mason http://www.emdpi.com __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailm

Re: [css-d] What's wrong with my line-height calculations?

2007-04-09 Thread Richard Mason
is -20 then one is requesting a font size of 20 pixels. www.emdpi.com/fontsize.html -- Richard Mason __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.i