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RE: Pixel and Device Pixel

From: Brian Manthos <brianman@microsoft.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:21:08 +0000
To: Cyril Concolato <cyril.concolato@telecom-paristech.fr>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <9710FCC2E88860489239BE0308AC5D1710C2B5@TK5EX14MBXC264.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>
Cyril Concolato:
> Hi CSS Expert,
>
> Reading http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#img-pixel2,
> I find the figure a bit confusing in the choice of colors (red, green, blue)
> as it seems to imply that a CSS pixel for a monitor corresponds to a
> sub-channel (R, G, B). You might want to improve it for the next edition.

I don't get that impression from the image for two reasons: (1) printers don't have blocks of red separated from green and blue (the left side) and (2) I know of no display that represents a pixel with an L shape (the right side).

That said, it might be good to move away from R, G, and B (toward basically any other color except white) to avoid potential confusion between "3 boxes of color" and "sub-pixel slots for R, G, and B".
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