- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 03:25:57 -0400
- To: "Paul Nelson (ATC)" <paulnel@winse.microsoft.com>
- CC: www-style@w3.org, member-cdf@w3.org, timur.mehrvarz@web.de, lbolstad@opera.com
Paul Nelson (ATC) wrote: > I would like to avoid the term "aspect-ratio" when it refers to width and hight of a page, screen > or other output. The reason is that there are some devices that have non-square aspect ratios. > For example, on inch could be 72 dots horizontally and 68 dots vertically. Good example, Paul. The spec defines the aspect ratio as "the number of horizontal pixels over the number of vertical pixels". It's a measure of the screen's width divided by its height (I don't think we can change that fact), but it's not a good measure if the resolution differs horizontally from vertically. So it's not very useful on these devices as defined. We should update the spec to define reasonable behavior for devices that have non-isometric resolutions. ~fantasai
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