Re: [css21][css3][svg] SVG and unit-less length values

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com> wrote:

> Working with 2x pixel ratio displays will create more demand for
> improvements to the current state of CSS.
> Though pixel ratio does turn the CSS pixel into a relative unit, there are
> some difficulties in specifying quality.
>
> One can not, for instance, set the pixel ratio of individual elements.
>

It doesn't matter for most elements.

I've found that my canvas tags need additional styling:
> <canvas width="960" height="640" style="width: 480px; height: 320px;">
>

As specced, browsers are allowed to use a higher-resolution backing store
for the canvas element if they want to. But there are some compatibility
problems around the getImageData/putImageData APIs. Anyway, the issues
around canvas are specific to canvas.

Many authors have noticed that they need high-res and low res
> stylesheets and supporting images. Some have gone so far as to suggest @2
> be suffixed
> onto image names.
>

To address this, we just need Webkit's device-pixel-ratio media query to be
standardized.

Rob
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