Re: How to prevent text from stretching in HTML.... <th>...</th>
- From: dorayme <doraymeRidThis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:22:41 +1100
In article <ggv6is$u2r$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Scott Bryce <sbryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The nice thing about inches is that even if the screen is configured
at 120dpi or any other dpi, 6 inches should come pretty close to 6
inches.
Not at all. It depends in the dpi and on the size of the pixels.
If the 6 inches can be made up of pixels more or less, and if the screen
is properly configured and the OS knows the configuration and passes
this knowledge onto the browser, then an element specified as 6 inches
wide should be 6 inches wide, more or less.
If each pixel, to take an imaginary example, was *much* greater than 6
inches wide, then of course, 6 inches made up of pixels would not be
possible at all. But pixels, being tiny in fact, *should* modular up to
6" close enough.
I think I recall a former version of iCab, a Mac browser, having a
preference dialog where you could tell it what was a certain length. You
would measure it on the screen and then it would know how many pixels
were per inch...
Not sure what browsers and OSs do these days re this. I know they are
not very good at it, at least not on my machine with two display cards
and two monitors!
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dorayme
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