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> we need a new unit to unambiguously describe angular measure.

That's a nonsense unit. You'd need to know where my eyeballs are and change the measure as I move my head around! What happens if two people are looking at the screen?

> we need to start demanding resolution independent units

That's what CSS pixels are. A pixel is 0.26 mm, period.




> That's what CSS pixels are. A pixel is 0.26 mm, period.

For some definition of "mm". Did you read the part about "anchoring"?


Right but that's just "for lower-resolution devices", i.e. devices with a resolution lower than the reference pixel. There's no use demanding to have units of measure which the device is incapable of displaying! What possible use would it serve?




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