Table Caption, Another HTML Bug?

[Eugene Lee]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 10:14:14AM -0100, Patrick Armbruster wrote:
: 
: Computers today *still* are based on 72 dpi.

No, but the print world standardizes on 72 dpi, so they chose to make
computer screens match the real-life proportions of paper.

: Somehow Windows forgot that
: and switched to 96 dpi (or did so from the beginning).

Windoze has been doing 96 dpi from the beginning.  This seems to be a
VGA thing, but no one really knows for sure.  Anyways, M$ somehow got
the W3C to make this the standard in things like CSS (look for the parts
where it explains that its reference pixel is based on a 96 dpi device).
The rest is history.

: Of course,
: depending on the resolution of your screen (which you can change) your
: dpi are always different. Neither 72 or 96. But it was 'agreed' upon 72.
: Now that 'the world' uses 96 dpi in browsers, pages started to look ugly
: on the Mac, so Microsoft invented 96 dpi browsing on Macintosh.
: 
: So basically, we're doing it wrong intentionally, because else we get
: tiny, tiny, tiny fonts on our screens.

But since 96 dpi is the standard for CSS, are you suggesting that
OmniWeb should violate official web standards?


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Eugene Lee
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