- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 10:19:14 -0800
- To: Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Christoph Päper
<christoph.paeper@crissov.de> wrote:
> Brian:
>> Smartphones will likely have resolutions that will either rival or
>> supersede present-day laptop resolutions, so our approach of detecting
>> screen resolution and/or pixel density will be useless as a means to detect
>> form factor.
>
> Um, if I’m not mistaken, the device and display width and height queries would work just fine with physical units (‘mm’, ‘cm’, even ‘in’, ‘pt’, ‘pc’) if they’re not affected by the fixed 96px = 72pt (= 1in = 25.4mm) ratio required elsewhere (font size etc.).
They work the same, with the fixed ratio. Anything else would be
*ridiculously* confusing. ("I set up a media query asking if the
screen is 10in wide, and then set the body's width to 10in! Why is it
overflowing?")
~TJ
Received on Saturday, 10 December 2011 18:20:03 UTC