Re: device-pixel-ratio

On Apr 25, 2012, at 4:27 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote:
>> On Apr 25, 2012, at 9:11 AM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote:
>>> On 04/25/2012 02:40 AM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> There seem to be at least three advantages, if, perhaps, relatively minor ones.
>>>> 
>>>> 1) 'device-pixel-ratio: 2' is more readily understandable - ddpx is a mysterious abbreviation.
>>>> 2) device-pixel-ratio is deployed in existing content (albeit with a webkit prefix); declining to standardize it seems likely to increase the scope of the prefix problem.
>>>> 3) device-pixel-ratio has actual deployment experience showing it is usable for its intended purpose.
>>>> 
>>>> In what way is 'resolution: 2ddpx' better?
>>> 
>>> It doesn't add anything new. It uses an existing mechanism to do the same thing.
>> 
>> I don't follow closely, so I may be misinformed, but isn't the dppx unit something new? It looks like it wasn't present in the Sept 11 Working Draft of Values & Units.
> 
> At the time it was only defined in Image Values, as that is where it
> was introduced.
> 
> It's been in the V&U Editor's Draft for some time, and is present in
> the current Working Draft (published in early March).  Why are you
> referring to the Sep 2011 WD?

Because I wanted a quick way to to see when it was added. I'm unable to readily tell when it was first added to Image Values.

For comparison, device-pixel-ratio was first implemented as a vendor extension in 2006[1] and exists (prefixed) in at least WebKit, Presto and Gecko. So I wondered why device-pixel-ratio counts as "add[ing] anything new" but the dppx unit does not. I don't follow closely, so maybe there is some reason for diverging from content and implementations here.

Regards,
Maciej

[1] http://www.webkit.org/blog/55/high-dpi-web-sites/

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