- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:13:05 -0800
- To: Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de> wrote: > Tab Atkins Jr.: >> >> The relationship between image pixels and CSS px are defined by the image-resolution property, which defaults to 1dppx (1 dot per px). That is, each image pixel is a CSS px. > > Yes, that’‚ a good thing, but the property should default to ‘1px’ and authors should be able to set it to ‘1dot’ (or ‘1mm’ or ‘1in’). That means it should not use new reciprocal units. The unit used is an editorial issue. The spec already allows authors to set the resolution in 'in' or 'cm' using the 'dpi' and 'dpcm' units. I'm not sure how you could base the resolution on dots, considering that you're defining the size of the dots. That said, does anyone actually implement 'image-resolution' yet? It does seem sort of silly to define resolution units that are just inverted length units. We could just use length units instead, and avoid the headache I get every time I mentally parse "dppx" (my brain insists on first trying to interpret the "dpp" as "device pixels per" and then the "x" just makes the whole thing seize up). ~TJ
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