Ask PG: Points to Pixels

[earnubs]

Can I suggest changing the CSS units for fonts from points to pixels? That way HN will look the same on both Chrome and Firefox for me :)

On Chrome 10pt HN type is 12px on Firefox it's 13.3333px (Mac OS X).

(Apologies if this is not the way to do this! Thank you for HN!)

[zachinglis]

Why pixels anyway? REMs are generally considered convention nowadays anyway?

And what does it matter if it doesn't look the same on every browser? It definitely doesn't change the experience.

[jcr]

At the bottom of all pages, you'll see the "Feature Request" link.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363