Re: [css3-images] What does image-resolution apply to?

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 24, 2011, at 10:23 AM, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Alan Gresley <alan@css-class.com> wrote:
>>> On 25/05/2011 2:42 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>>>> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Brad Kemper<brad.kemper@gmail.com>
>>>>> This is also a question about background size. Suppose that with
>>>>> that same 400 x 400 raster image I have { background-image:
>>>>> image('400x400.png' 10dpi); background-size: 1in 1in; }? What are
>>>>> the final sizes of the rendered image pixels? 1/10" or 1/400"?
>>>>>
>>>>> Perhaps in both cases, you are just adjusting a sort of "late
>>>>> intrinsic" resolution that is then overridden by width and height
>>>>> declarations? If so, I think you need to say so. (Apologies, if you
>>>>> do somewhere already, and I just missed it.)
>>>>
>>>> I don't think it's clearly stated how this works, so I should fix
>>>> that.  The intent is that it affects the intrinsic size.
>>>>
>>>> So, in your first example (400x400 pixel image at 72dpi, sized to
>>>> 1in by 1in), you first apply the resolution.  This gives you a
>>>> native image size of 533px (or 5.55in), which is then scaled down to
>>>> 1in by 1in.  Your second example is similar, though more extreme
>>>> given the tiny dpi.
>>>
>>> What happens with a SVG background-image that has no intrinsic size or no
>>> dimension?
>>>
>>> background-image: image('basic.svg' 50dpi)
>>
>> For vector images, the "dot" in dpi is pixels in the outermost
>> coordinate space.  So, that declaration simply means that the SVG's
>> initial coordinate space is such that 1px in it is equal to 1/50th of
>> an inch.
>>
>> In other words, if the SVG image had something like "<svg width='100'
>> height='100'>" as the root element, then it would be scaled to be a
>> 2in by 2in square.  Without that resolution declaration, the image
>> would be just over 1in square instead.
>
> Are SVG lengths alway unitless numbers? If not, I would expect an SVG measured in inches to be pixelated if given a low enough resolution (which might occasionally be a useful effect).  Forgive my ignorance of SVG, please.

No, they can be given as actual lengths, like "1in".  I'm not
immediately certain how that would interact with resolution changes,
though.  I suspect that's far enough down the unspecified road that
it's up to the UA right now.

~TJ

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