+1 Just look at W3C's CSS3 it even provides a rudimentary DSL for unit conversion and takes at least a unit string or symbol into consideration everywhere.
Werner Am 03.09.2014 13:42 schrieb "eberhard speer jr." <[email protected]>: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > > If we have the physical screen dimensions, then we can calculate > > an approximate ppi. > > The operative word being *IF*. Are you going to do those calculations ? > Why inches ? > Why pixels and not like the majority [Android] dots ? > > All this 'calculation' without, nay, to avoid a unit of measure ? > > And what about Pixel Ratio which is readily available, standard and > relevant to rendering instead of ppi which strike me more as a > 'bragging' number ? > > Again : no objections to including it provided *all* cases are covered > : pixels, dots, metric,... ie : when a unit of measure is included. > > You suggestion is too restricted [pixels per inch only] and > presupposes calculations and presupposes the user to know PPI has for > some reason been decreed the norm [which it isn't, it is one of...] > and the "simple calculations". > > esjr > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUBv5PAAoJEOxywXcFLKYcrJkIAKTELNze63kzI8q+rXgIbLaA > cjLeiD9lHMWEUOKT6yy6glfstTxerGwd+P+Qzlh46IDLgXOfdHoQ0i9A95xqWm+o > /LbUZSNtjK50evxS7FBVqi+ZoN0n9Q/FmqR3UNyQUP1KqtNzkfQSQX23YvllD25G > xT7gJjixpBmTlfEOywn68f+ut1N9oq8mS2mIGW0G5oUvUdU9wnVkTotq7/Qi3o5y > N751A43rgnqvt3IcYl4UaACSVsVUtWb8ThQHmnpNPBhyMbaKSFLWSsxnPZ86f+Fj > NLXyQ4E23AZUM2sqyVY56NDdwg5X9R8YZH4xKwrLyTJgIa9NlazvjGZKaaQytos= > =aSIZ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
