Re: [whatwg] Defaulting new image solution to 192dpi

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