Mixing units of measure

Working in RH7, with content distributed as Webhelp, any
reason to prefer one unit of measure over another? Does HTML or do
browsers generally handle any better than others? RH logically
seems to require points for fonts, defaults to pixels for graphics,
but what about setting (1) line spacing in styles, including the RH
native Lists style, or setting (2) table column width. I have never
switched to a monitor with a different pixel size and had things
look messed up, but wouldn’t that happen?

Yes, it's the mixing of print measurements with electronic
media measurements that makes me wonder where things might go
wrong, or why they don't. A pixel is a thing of arbitrary size, not
a dimension, right? So the displayed size of a picture sized to 200
x 150 pixels depends on screen resolution. A point is a fixed
dimension, yet the displayed size of text that sized and spaced in
points also changes depending on screen resolution. So points are
not treated as fixed dimensions. At least not always. Why not? And
where not? And what happens when you move content from an
electronic display environment to a print environment when, for
example, you convert from Robohelp topics to Word documents? If no
one ever has problems these inconsistent units of measure, what's
going on behind the scenes that makes it all work out so
well?

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