RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 11644 9541
Implement CSS units correctly 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9541
Summary Implement CSS units correctly
Nicholas Shanks
Reported 2006-06-22 01:37:18 PDT
Dave Hyatt wrote on Surfin' Safari: "Any browser that truly attempted to treat pt as 1/72nd of a physical inch would just end up mis-rendering Web sites … You can’t actually use the physical DPI of the device because it could make the Web site look horribly wrong." I dispute this, and seek to have 1pt == 1in/72, taking into account the device DPI, and where 1in is exactly one inch across if I hold a ruler up to the screen/page. For example, when dragging a window across screens of differing resolutions, relayout should occur if absolute units are used. Websites that look horribly wrong like this are *designed* to look horribly wrong. It's not our fault the website designer sucks. Unless Apple's screens have a way of obtaining their pixel density and dot pitch, this will probably require a lookup table for all flat panels. I think a best guess is all you can achieve with CRTs.
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Nicholas Shanks
Comment 1 2006-11-25 15:03:10 PST
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 11644 ***
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