- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:14:31 -0700
- To: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On 10/28/2010 05:41 AM, Rune Lillesveen wrote: > On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:20:18 +0200, David Storey <dstorey@opera.com> wrote: > >> The Nintendo Wii browser uses the TV media type if it is there >> otherwise uses the Screen media type. It works better than handheld as >> there is no, or less legacy content out there using TV which would >> break modern browsers. >> >> I believe the TV media type is quite useful as modern TVs have pretty >> big resolution now (so you can;t do the trick like with mobile for >> applying style when the resolution is lower), but you want a somewhat >> different experience on TV. You generally sit close to a desktop or >> laptop so can have regular size text, while on TV you are usually >> sitting back on the couch, so want to pump up the text size for >> example. Using a TV media type makes it much easier to detect the user >> is on a TV, providing browser vendors support it. TVs also come in a >> standard set of resolutions (1080p/i 720, SD etc) so the TV media type >> in combination with media queries for those resolutions can be quite >> powerful if supported. > > Pumping up the pixel size of a font based on physical DPI is only needed > for broken UAs, right? See [1] > > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#pixel-units Note that definition of the pixel has been superseded. http://fantasai.inkedblade.net/style/specs/css2.1/px-unit http://csswg.inkedblade.net/spec/css2.1#issue-149 ~fantasai
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