What are some reasons to use inch units in screen-based CSS, aside from this kind of project?
Edit: Removed all sentiment to my profile, leaving a beautifully rational shell of a comment.
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#12Trying to imagine someone from France, Australia or Brazil to do something similar and failing.
Re: Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes
#13Trying to imagine someone from France, Australia or Brazil to do something similar and failing.
Uhhh why France?
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#14Why?
Because freedom units ( https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=freedom%20un... ) are better than the metric system.
Just make sure not to use this stylesheet when describing the route towards a distant planet so as to avoid ending up in a smoking crater instead of in the promised land.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because freedom units ( https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=freedom%20un... ) are better than the metric system.
Just make sure not to use this stylesheet when describing the route towards a distant planet so as to avoid ending up in a smoking crater instead of in the promised land.
instead of the promised land
There’s plenty of options out there in the wild black yonder of space. Just try to avoid Europa. Bit of a dispute over land rights with that one.
Re: Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes
#16This is one of the more Trumpian things I've seen on HN.
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#17I didn't even know you could set inches! Happy 4th!
Mostly useful for print stylesheets. On screens it seems to be defined as a constant 96px[1], which means it has no correspondence to physical inches. [1]: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/09/css-length-explained/
Welcome back to HNC News. Tonight's top story: US law makers have introduced a new bill that would require all digital displays in the United States to feature a pixel density of 96 ppi. White house officials say the new bill represents "the first step on the march to bring freedom to the cyber world". More on this after the break.
Re: Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes
#18What are some reasons to use inch units in screen-based CSS, aside from this kind of project? Edit: Removed all sentiment to my profile, leaving a beautifully rational shell of a comment.
If you need to rive a 5cm length in twain and you don't like fractions. Or if you're making a website devoted to larval geometer moths.
Re: Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes
#19This is one of the more Trumpian things I've seen on HN.
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#20What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us?... What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.
~ Fredrick Douglass