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A year ago I skimmed through the spec and counted ~40 distance units in CSS (12 font units, 18 viewport units, 7 absolute distance units if I counted correctly)
by dmitriid 4y ago
A year ago I skimmed through the spec and counted ~40 distance units in CSS (12 font units, 18 viewport units, 7 absolute distance units if I counted correctly).
As you'd expect, none of them do what you'd really want them to do.
- seydor 4y ago12 more now apparently
- a9h74j 4y agoOff topic, but analogous: About a year ago, the last time I checked the Wikipedia page on energy use, I counted IIRC 10-20 different units being referenced. It is almost as if people were working to prevent uniform understanding and intuition.
- bryanrasmussen 4y agoso actually XKCD is wrong https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/ standards proliferate because they're bad not because we need to unify standards under one master standard!
- martin_a 4y agoI was just thinking about how many units for measurements are there in CSS. Thanks for providing the answer.