- From: Rune Lillesveen <rune@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:06:19 +0200
- To: "Kenneth Rohde Christiansen" <kenneth.christiansen@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Kenneth Christiansen" <kenneth.christiansen@openbossa.org>, "www-style list" <www-style@w3.org>
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:29:43 +0200, Kenneth Rohde Christiansen <kenneth.christiansen@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, yes. It is to avoid scaling and still provide web components > (buttons etc) that have a clickable size. > > Basically most services such as GMail Mobile etc have lists and > buttons optimized for the DPI of the iPhone, thus there is no scaling > with a device-width of 320. If on the other hand you use a > device-width of 480 the list items and buttons become small and harder > to interact with so Android and Fennec (and us) considers the DPI > difference (160 vs 240) and scales everything with a factor of 1.5. > This results in us not having a pixel for each css pixel, using scaled > images etc. > > This is something we want to avoid in order to make web apps look as > native as possible, plus making them take advantage of our better > screen. I agree that making a pixel perfect GUI targeting a specific device is a valid use-case. -- Rune Lillesveen Senior Core Developer / Architect Opera Software ASA
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