- From: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>
- Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 14:21:51 -0500
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: whatwg@whatwg.org, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>wrote: > >> For two, I'm not sure that it's particularly obvious that when you say > >> "2x", you should make sure your image was saved as 196dpi. You have > >> to already know what the default resolution is. > > > > You don't have to. The resolution of the image is ignored. > > If you don't set your image's resolution appropriately, you'll get > unexpected sizing effects. > I think the terms are confused, since we use "resolution" to refer to both image dimensions and DPI, which are very different things. We might want to avoid the term in a discussion that involves both. The DPI is ignored by browsers, of course; it's the dimensions vs. the scale factor that you have to get right. It would probably help readability a lot if you're allowed to use ratios, eg. 300/96 to mean 3.125. -- Glenn Maynard
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