RE: [css3-mediaqueries] feedback on device-aspect-ratio, aspect-ratio and orientation

* Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>I talked it over with Håkon today and the person responsible for
>implementing Media Queries in Opera. We feel that the 'orientation'
>feature is actually sufficient and we could do away with 'aspect-ratio'
>and 'device-aspect-ratio'. The use cases for not caring so much about
>screen size, but wanting to know something about the aspect ratio seem to
>be about orientation.
>
>Are there strong reasons for keeping the aspect ratio related features
>other than 'orientation'?

I'm wondering if the functionality allows correction of graphics for cases where the screen resolution is 1280x1024 (5:4), but the physical screen is a 4:3 aspect ratio. In other words, non-square pixels....

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Received on Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:54:27 UTC