Re: [css3-images] Units for `image-resolution: from-image`

On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 14:41:55 +0200, Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@exyr.org>  
wrote:

> The 'from-image' keyword of the 'image-resolution' property is defined as
>
>      The image's intrinsic resolution is taken as that specified by the  
> image format. If the image does not specify its own resolution, the  
> explicitly specified resolution is used (if given), else it defaults to  
> ‘1dppx’.
>
> The only image formats that I found that have resolution metadata are  
> JPEG and TIFF, where it is specified in "image pixels per inches" or  
> "per centimeter".
>
> How should this be interpreted? I think it should map to CSS in and cm  
> (and therefore the resolution is interpreted as dpi and dpcm) rather  
> than physical inches and centimeters, which otherwise don’t exist in CSS.

I agree, this seems to be the only reasonable thing to do.

  - Florian

Received on Friday, 26 July 2013 14:18:00 UTC