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Bug 17584 - 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: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-06-24 21:01 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-09-24 00:11 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-06-24 21:01:01 UTC 
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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Comment 1 Axel Dahmen 2012-06-24 21:02:18 UTC 
I suggest to use "em" instead of "px" unit values.
Comment 2 contributor 2012-07-18 17:50:29 UTC 
This bug was cloned to create bug 18251 as part of operation convergence.
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-09-23 23:27:05 UTC 
This is a lost cause unfortunately. We're forced to these values by backwards-compatibility concerns.
Comment 4 Axel Dahmen 2012-09-24 00:11:30 UTC 
OK, I understand.

Thanks, Ian