- From: Kenneth Christiansen <kenneth.christiansen@openbossa.org>
- Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 14:10:09 -0300
- To: Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com>
- Cc: Rune Lillesveen <rune@opera.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
It is not, or at least that is not documented. On the other hand it is becoming popular because of Android and Google supports it for their mobile services. Kenneth On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com> wrote: > Is "target-densitydpi: device-dpi" supported in iOS? > Android worked out well for me, but working on the iPhone 4, I hit a wall. > > > On 8/9/2010 10:02 AM, Kenneth Christiansen wrote: >> >> Basically the ratio is calculated, and the default DPI is considered >> to be 160 which I guess is the DPI on the first iPhone and Android >> devices. >> >> With a DPI of 160 no scaling is needed. On the other hand if you have >> a device such as the newer Android devices or the Nokia N900, if no >> DPI is set, a scale of 1.5 is applied (Fennec does this on the N900 as >> well), due to the DPI of the device being 240. >> >> This is reflected via the -webkit-device-pixel-ratio media feature. >> >> Instead of doing the scaling, the web developer can set >> target-densitydpi to device-dpi (240 in the above case) in which no >> scale is applied. This means that a initial-scale of 1.0 is actually >> 1.0 and not 1.5 as if the target-densitydpi was left out. >> >> The list of options for target-densitydpi are as follows (copied from >> Android changelog): >> >> device-dpi: Use the device's native dpi as target dpi. >> low-dpi: 120dpi >> medium-dpi: 160dpi, which is also the default as of today >> high-dpi: 240dpi >> <number>: We take any number between 70 and 400 as a valid target >> dpi. >> >> Cheers, >> Kenneth >> >> >>>> >>>> You should also consider adding the Android targetdpi extension. >>>> >>> >>> Perhaps. So how would you go about using that? In combination with the >>> resolution media feature? >>> >>> I kind of see the point of using physical pixels for the intrinsic size >>> of >>> images. >>> >>> Will people complain about breaking with the specification of a CSS >>> pixel? >>> >>> -- >>> Rune Lillesveen >>> Senior Core Developer / Architect >>> Opera Software ASA >>> >>> >> >> >> > > -- Kenneth Rohde Christiansen Technical Lead / Senior Software Engineer Qt Labs Americas, Nokia Technology Institute, INdT Phone +55 81 8895 6002 / E-mail kenneth.christiansen at openbossa.org
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