Table Caption, Another HTML Bug?

[Patrick Armbruster]

Hehe :)

No, this has NOTHING to do with printers. :) Back then (1984, 85, ...) Mac 
monitors actually *were* 72 DPI screens. This of course changed with the 
first multisync monitors, where you - while changing the resolution - also 
adjust the DPI of your monitor. But 72 DPI is still the way the system 
measures its screen. And no, if you define a font as 12 px in a stylesheet,
  IE does *not* make it 16 px high on your whatever DPI screen. It will be 
12 px high, of course, because we're doing bitmap there. OmniWeb still 
does a poor job with CSS and we all know that, but the 72 DPI do not 
derive from 72 DPI printers but from screens.

I guess OmniWeb uses the system settings for font sizes in its rendering 
engine.

Am Mittwoch den, 2. Januar 2002, um 19:07, schrieb David Hampson:

> 	If Omni assumed my monitor had 72 dpi (which Macs used to always 
> assume back in the days of the 72dpi dot-matrix printers) then a 12 point 
> font would correspond to 12 pixels height.  I believe Omni assumes 96 dpi,
>  (which is what Windows assumed, and is much closer to the average 
> monitor resolution)  This means a 12 point font is (12/72)*96 = 16  
> pixels tall, which seems more more like what I am getting.
>
> 	Omni does such a poor job with style sheets though, its hard for me 
> to properly test it.