- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 11:33:07 -0700
- To: Kornel Lesiński <kornel@geekhood.net>
- Cc: whatwg <whatwg@whatwg.org>
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Kornel Lesiński <kornel@geekhood.net> wrote: > On Thu, 17 May 2012 16:05:13 +0100, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> > wrote: >>> Necessity to specify 2x scaling all the time will become a bad default >>> and a historical quirk (like the DOCTYPE), and a source of annoyance where >>> accidentally omitted "2x" syntax makes images large and pixelated. >> >> I think that 2x only looks like a good default now. I would bet that >> in less than 10 years 3x or higher will look like a good default. > > So why is 1x the default when it's obvious that it is not going to be a good > default? Because it's simple (1 image pixel = 1 CSS pixel), and it was the historical default. ~TJ
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