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Re: Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes

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Post by OJFord »

gerikson wrote: post #22

Metric inches or survey inches? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_(unit)#International_foot )

Huh, I didn't know about this, that feet and inches used to differ across the world. If only they'd done pints, fluid ounces, and cups, etc. too!

(Cups are particularly annoying: there's British, US, US Legal, and metric. The best recipe-following advice is that it's never going to matter. But it's annoying.)

Re: Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

corndoge wrote: post #38
KKKKkkkk1 wrote: post #37

Only a true American patriot who is deeply devoted to the nation's ideals would zealously protect a system of units that has been thrown in the dustbin of history by the rest of humanity.

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Actually a red tailed hawk.

Re: Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes

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Post by Shared404 »

CivBase wrote: post #17
mediumdeviation wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

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Re: Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes

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Post by snapetom »

serf wrote: post #40
KKKKkkkk1 wrote: post #37

Only a true American patriot who is deeply devoted to the nation's ideals would zealously protect a system of units that has been thrown in the dustbin of history by the rest of humanity.

Was your point against the user, the concept, the measurement standard, or just triggered by any vague mentioning of the United States? It's difficult to sort through the negative sentiments to get to real point. Be more clear with your hostility and anger next time, would'ya?

I can't understand what's going on with some of these comments. Is it a genuine inability to see the levity of the project? Anti-americanism so strong to ignore the levity? It's humor, people.

Re: Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes

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Post by simias »

earthboundkid wrote: post #27
mediumdeviation wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

Screens around the world are sold based on diagonal inches. USA! USA!

As a European whose only familiarity with inches is that "it's about 3cm" that actually annoys me.

Back when screens were small it sort of worked, I knew what 13", 15", 17" and 20" screens looked like. Since most monitors fell in that range (yeah, I'm showing my age) that was good enough. Anything bigger than that was "damn huge", anything smaller was "damn small".

But now monitors and especially TVs are immense. I see TVs with diagonals of 30", 55", 65"... That means absolutely nothing to me. I have to convert into centimeters for it to make sense. Fortunately some resellers do put the metric measurement next to the inches, but not everybody does it.

Re: Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes

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Post by wizzwizz4 »

serf wrote: post #43
purpleidea wrote: post #34

Relevant units: https://i.redd.it/582slv24n1741.jpg PSA, don't use old deprecated units still pushed by confused country.

>PSA, don't use old deprecated units still pushed by confused country. I understand perfectly. Everyone, stop measuring weights in stone -- England has been declared confused!

I mean… the only thing still measured in stone is babies, and even that's falling out of favour.
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