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Bug 18251 - blockquote, figure: Margins should not be put in pixels because they don't scale well.
Summary: blockquote, figure: Margins should not be put in pixels because they don't sc...
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Edward O'Connor
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-07-18 17:50 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-10-21 11:51 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2012-07-18 17:50:26 UTC
This was was cloned from bug 17584 as part of operation convergence.
Originally filed: 2012-06-24 21:01:00 +0000

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 #0   contributor@whatwg.org                          2012-06-24 21:01:01 +0000 
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Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/rendering.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#flow-content-1
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#flow-content-1

Comment:
blockquote, figure: Margins should not be put in pixels because they don't
scale well.

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 #1   Axel Dahmen                                     2012-06-24 21:02:18 +0000 
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I suggest to use "em" instead of "px" unit values.
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Comment 1 Edward O'Connor 2012-10-12 23:36:58 UTC
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: No spec change.
Rationale: Unfortunately, we need to use px here for compatibility with
the extant Web corpus.