- From: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:29:44 +0800
- To: shelby@coolpage.com
- Cc: Thibaut Sailly <thibaut@tsailly.net>, www-style@w3.org
Don't forget that a CSS pixel might not be a single device pixel. On Oct 12, 2010, at 17:07 , Shelby Moore wrote: > px units should be deprecated and discouraged, but to get there we need an > image format which can contain multiple interlaced resolutions, so that > devices can load only up the resolution they need. Then we can also > specify <img> dimensions in proportional units (e.g. pt, em, vh, ...). > >> Hello all, >> >> here is a link to an article I posted last week about the use of pixels as >> a unit in web design. >> Daniel Glazman suggested I post it here after I pinged him on Twitter >> about it. >> >> So here it is, I hope it'll be worth you time: >> http://bureau.tsailly.net/2010/10/honey-i-shrunk-the-pixels.html >> >> Long story short : pixels are vanishing from the visible world because >> screen density rises, and screen densities get very diverse from devices >> to others. It makes setting text to a precise physical size on screens >> less meaningful and very difficult. >> >> Thank you, >> Thibaut >> >> >> > > David Singer Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
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