- From: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:19:31 +0100
- To: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Cc: David Singer <singer@apple.com>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, "robert@ocallahan.org" <robert@ocallahan.org>, www-style <www-style@w3.org>
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote: > Au contraire. I said "in cases where the content is made especially for the > output device", as opposed to general Web content. So the author would know > the monitor dpi and UA default zoom choice. Assuming 'device' here refers to _both_ the physical display _and_ the UA, because otherwise there are no guarantees that the default zoom chosen by one UA is the same as the one chosen by another UA. > And in the case of user style sheets, these would be used where the user did > know that the page scaling was always wrong when viewing Web pages in his > browser. Agreed for this case. But for the former, I still think that setting a ratio between CSS and real world units would be more appropriate _and_ more robust than setting a more abstract zoom level. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
Received on Thursday, 21 January 2010 05:20:24 UTC