Dropdowns Should Be the UI of Last Resort

Re:Dropdowns Should Be the UI of Last Resort by marcosdumay on Monday July 20, 2015 @03:12PM (#9918308)

> I feel like a lot of these complaints are endemic to defining things in CSS using 'px' as units instead of more sensible (and repsonsive) modern techniques like defining type in 'pt' and widths in more complex units (percents, or mixed units).

What? Isn't px a fixed multiple of pt, with an actual size that varies by platform?

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Re:Dropdowns Should Be the UI of Last Resort by dragonwriter on Monday July 20, 2015 @07:17PM (#9919720)

> What? Isn't px a fixed multiple of pt

CSS 3 defines pixels that way (1/96 inch, pt is 1/72 inch), but the previous definition was rather different, and had no fixed relation to either inches or ems.

But I thought the change in CSS 3 was because pretty much every actual implementation of CSS 2.1 had taken the definition, chucked it out the window, and used 1/96 inch anyway. So, I don't see how any problems could arise in practice from using px instead of pt.

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