Re: about the use of pixels as a unit for typography

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:13 AM, Peter Moulder <peter.moulder@monash.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > When changes to units in CSS were last being discussed, I did wonder
> whether we
> > should drop the "whole number of device pixels" recommendation from
> > syndata.html, such that a px would equal a reference px.  The main reason
> I
> > didn't in the end post this suggestion was concern that bitmapped images
> such
> > as gifs (especially small ones) would still be with us for a long time.
>
> Indeed they will be, but more than that, rendering *any* content to
> anything other than whole device pixels is a big perf hit.  It would
> make painting unacceptably slow.
>

It's actually not bad if you can use the GPU for image scaling (e.g. Firefox
and IE9 drawing with D2D).

I think that recommendation should be dropped.

Rob
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