- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:12:17 -0500
- To: rfink@readableweb.com
- CC: robert@ocallahan.org, "'www-style'" <www-style@w3.org>
On 1/5/10 9:56 AM, Richard Fink wrote: > How is this even possible without knowing the actual physical dimensions > of the display? Whatever made you think these are unknown? They're certainly known to the OS (e.g. watching debug output from an X server starting up shows various information about the display including its self-reported physical size; in my measuring with a ruler these sizes are pretty much correct). In practice, Gecko asks the OS for this information. > I find it astonishing that – how many years after the “plug ‘n’ play” > spec was first implemented? – displays do not, as a matter of course, > communicate their physical dimensions to the OS. Every single display I've used recently (last 5 years) does... -Boris
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