- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 23:03:32 +0100
- To: Thomas Phinney <tphinney@adobe.com>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Also sprach Thomas Phinney:
> >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....
No. I can sympathize with your motivation, but the use case is far
outside of scope for media queries.
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
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