- From: Marcos Caceres <marcosscaceres@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:20:27 +0000
- To: Kai Hendry <hendry@aplix.co.jp>
- CC: <public-webapps@w3.org>, public-mwts <public-mwts@w3.org>
Hi Kai, On 1/14/09 4:06 PM, "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU> wrote: > > Kai Hendry wrote: >> Was wondering how you came up with 150x300 as the default size for a widget. > > Possibly because that's the default size of a replaced element in CSS? > And that's because that's how big iframes are by default in browsers, > last I checked. Exactly. >> Perhaps pixel definitions are scalable in reality nowadays by UAs and >> that's just an indicator of dimensions, 1:2? > > These are CSS pixels, so they're a measurement of angle of arc; they > don't necessarily quite match device pixels. For example, at 200dpi a > single CSS pixel will be 4 device pixels (a 2x2 square). That's my understanding too. I personally don't have much experience with this stuff, so if anyone knows any good resources/literature I should be looking at wrt device independence, please let me know. Kind regards, Marcos
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