[thelist] Re: CSS article
Martin Burns
martin at easyweb.co.uk
Sun Jun 23 14:06:03 CDT 2002
On Saturday, June 22, 2002, at 11:07 am, Mark Gallagher wrote:
> Points don't have any particular size. It's completely arbitrary,
> depending on what the browser and/or OS decides to do with them.
1pt=1/72 of an inch.
Which isn't really predictable on-screen, but it *does* have a
particular size, and it's the measurement system which would be most
useful for print stylesheets.
Cheers
Martin
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