Re: [css3-mediaqueries] (min-resolution: 0dpi) is false in several browsers. from Boris Zbarsky on 2012-10-21 (www-style@w3.org from October 2012)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 19:56:55 -0400
To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
CC: www-style@w3.org
Message-ID: <50848BC7.5010606@mit.edu>

On 10/21/12 3:00 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> No other dimension has an intrinsic "non-zero" requirement

Why not?

Note that "Hz" does have an intrinsic "nonnegative" requirement, which 
should arguably actually be nonzero.

> and there's no reason for <resolution> in particular to
> be different.

Let's turn this around.  What possible use cases are there for "0dpi"? 
What would that even mean?

> I highly suspect the text you quoted is just a result of the original
> author being sloppy with the difference between "positive" and
> "non-negative".

As dbaron said, not likely.

-Boris

Received on Sunday, 21 October 2012 23:57:25 UTC