CSS ex unit sizing

Leo Savernik l.savernik at aon.at
Wed Jul 27 14:35:56 BST 2005


Am Dienstag, 26. Juli 2005 21:54 schrieb Ivor Hewitt:
> On Tuesday 26 Jul 2005 20:46, Leo Savernik wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 26. Juli 2005 19:06 schrieb Ivor Hewitt:
> > > The only way to get accurate css ex sizing is from the fonts xHeight
> > > metric so I guess the only alternative is to write a wrapper to query
> > > the xHeight from the freetype font otherwise simply not bother with
> > > accurate ex height calculations.
> >
> > What's the implication of not having accurate ex height? (I mean, on
> > real-world pages.)
>
> None whatsoever, it's just annoying since we can support it if we wanted
> to.

So it's actually not worth the performance decrease inflicted by a direct 
fontconfig query.

mfg
	Leo
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