You're being obtuse. Even most of those you list will not reasonably have a fixed, absolute value that is right for all users, all applications, and all situati

You're being obtuse. Even most of those you list will not reasonably have a fixed, absolute value that is right for all users, all applications, and all situations, and assuming they do is the cause of a lot of awful UI limitations. (Your user will never need characters to render as single pixels? Try again - sooner or later someone will decide to abuse your spreadsheet as a raytracer and be annoyed they can't make cells single pixel) And a feeling of consistentency often requires exceptions for specific cases such as the example of "find" where few users want to specifically find what happens to be in the browsers idea of what the document currently contains, but what it logically contains in their model of what it should contain. Consistency means that in an app that dynamically updates a scrollable region, for example, it should still find things in the currently not part of the browser document bits, and so shouldn't use the browsers find in those cases. Some users might want a shortcut that always does the browsers own find, and there generally ought to be ways to override the app, but consistently acting how the user will want is rarely compatible with absolute rules.