Am 27.02.2009 um 19:29 schrieb Felix Miata:
On 2009/02/27 10:47 (GMT-0600) Ryan Hayle composed:
On 27/02/09 10:09, Chris Cheney wrote:
Fortunately most web designers are smart enough not to use px for
fonts.
I'm not so sure it's reached 50% yet, particularly for shopping
carts. For
The last status is, actually there aren't any plans to integrate the
ideas from this project into the f-u-s-a (I contacted Ted Gould from
Ubuntu Desktop Team directly, even though he finds some ideas
interesting). I respect this decision surely.
This project is completed from my point of view. If
I wanted to do a check. I booted the alpha 5 livecd on 2 laptops:
a 15.4 with 1280x800
and my 14.1 with 1440x900
The result is strange, since the 2 laptops render the font in 2 different ways.
The first looks really good (and now I've understood why lots of
people here are saying that the
On 2009/02/28 18:34 (GMT+0100) Nicolò Chieffo composed:
I wanted to do a check. I booted the alpha 5 livecd on 2 laptops:
a 15.4 with 1280x800
and my 14.1 with 1440x900
The result is strange, since the 2 laptops render the font in 2 different
ways.
The first looks really good (and now
Ok, I understood now.
Anyway the default look of ubuntu in my screen is really ugly.
Is it possible to adapt the font to the screen DPI (automatically)?
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On Saturday 28 February 2009 6:38:04 am Markus Hitter wrote:
I can understand this is difficult to get swallowed. For 40 (or more)
years now, the rule was 1 pixel = 1 dot on the screen. A picture,
100px x 100px in size used to use exactly 100 x 100 dots on screen.
Now, this is no longer
On 28/02/09 11:34, Nicolò Chieffo wrote:
I wanted to do a check. I booted the alpha 5 livecd on 2 laptops:
a 15.4 with 1280x800
and my 14.1 with 1440x900
The result is strange, since the 2 laptops render the font in 2 different
ways.
The first looks really good (and now I've understood
On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 12:38 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote:
This is likely all true, but with resolution independent rendering,
it no longer applies. In the future, px is just a measurement unit,
just like in or mm. Once the software gets this, it's perfectly
fine for web developers to ask
On 2009/02/28 15:08 (GMT-0600) Chris Cheney composed:
Agreed that px should go away entirely in HTML
... an abomination that it
was ever allowed into the HTML specification at all
WRT fonts at least, HTML never had px. All HTML had and has for font sizing
is em, though it isn't
On Saturday 28 February 2009 5:12:11 pm Felix Miata wrote:
Even if all existing systems had accurate DPI, web designers would still
have
no more business using pt for sizing web page text than they do px. They
should only be using em to size text, with the option to size other things
in
%,
On 2009/02/28 19:23 (GMT-0500) Mackenzie Morgan composed:
On Saturday 28 February 2009 5:12:11 pm Felix Miata wrote:
Even if all existing systems had accurate DPI, web designers would still
have no more business using pt for sizing web page text than they do px.
They should only be using em
On 2009/02/28 12:38 (GMT+0100) Markus Hitter composed:
... with resolution independent rendering,
... px is just a measurement unit,
just like in or mm. Once the software gets this, it's perfectly
fine for web developers to ask for a 12pt font.
No it won't, because pt, like mm and px,
Op zaterdag 28-02-2009 om 15:08 uur [tijdzone -0600], schreef Chris
Cheney:
Pt is point which was defined long before computers came into wide use.
It was finally officially defined as 1/72 of an inch in 1959 but had
been in that general range of size since at least the 1700s.
Actually, 1/72
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