Re: [mediaqueries4] Media queries for multichannel audio ?

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 4:37 AM, Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com> wrote:

> On Mar 20, 2013, at 8:09 AM, Kenneth Rohde Christiansen wrote:
>
> > WebKit has devicePixelRatio so you can device the device size by using
> > that.
>
> This tells me the ratio between CSS pixels and device pixels, but this is
> still meaningless for TVs, since there is no definition of CSS pixels for
> TVs (a bit of a problem generally for web browsers on TVs, but
> nevertheless…).
>
> What I need is just the device width and height in device pixels, to know
> when it is not worth delivering a high resolution version of the content.
> It's not such a big deal with HD, since there are a dwindling number of SD
> displays, but with 4K this will be an issue.
>

You can get the viewport size (window.innerWidth/innerHeight) in CSS pixels
and multiply by devicePixelRatio to get the size in device pixels.

Rob
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