I'm not suggesting that only ems be available, just that we need both px and em.
em = 16
title = Text.height (2*em) (toText "Title")
pic = image 400 (4*em) "yogi.jpg"
I can also imagine the definition of em depending on the user's settings or fonts. In any case, we'll definitely open this up for discussion on the lists again if people start running into problems :)