- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:27:58 -0700
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, www-style@w3.org
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote: > On Apr 25, 2012, at 9:11 AM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote: >> On 04/25/2012 02:40 AM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: >>> >>> There seem to be at least three advantages, if, perhaps, relatively minor ones. >>> >>> 1) 'device-pixel-ratio: 2' is more readily understandable - ddpx is a mysterious abbreviation. >>> 2) device-pixel-ratio is deployed in existing content (albeit with a webkit prefix); declining to standardize it seems likely to increase the scope of the prefix problem. >>> 3) device-pixel-ratio has actual deployment experience showing it is usable for its intended purpose. >>> >>> In what way is 'resolution: 2ddpx' better? >> >> It doesn't add anything new. It uses an existing mechanism to do the same thing. > > I don't follow closely, so I may be misinformed, but isn't the dppx unit something new? It looks like it wasn't present in the Sept 11 Working Draft of Values & Units. At the time it was only defined in Image Values, as that is where it was introduced. It's been in the V&U Editor's Draft for some time, and is present in the current Working Draft (published in early March). Why are you referring to the Sep 2011 WD? ~TJ
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