[webkit-dev] Metric unit measurements and on screen display

[Andre-John Mas]

On 24-Jun-08, at 10:04 , Andre-John Mas wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Because of the move to resolution independence on the Mac, I decided
> to see what would happen if I indicated a table using centimeters.
> What I found is that what was indicated was not what was displayed.
> The computer being used for this test is MacBook Pro (Core Duo), with
> the built in screen and using native resolution.
>
> A test case is added at the end of the file. In the test case the
> table is specified to be 6cm wide, but is in reality 5.1cm wide. Is
> there something I am missing here, or is this something that should be
> flagged as a bug? What should the expectations be?

Looking through bugzilla I see there is already an open bug on the  
issue:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11644

I have added my 5c and what I see from reading the CSS specification.

Andre