(In reply to Karl Tomlinson (:karlt) from comment #11) > (In reply to Stefan Seidel from comment #8) > > So is there a reason to apply the rounding *in Firefox* where my patch would > > remove it? From a GTK3 point of view, probably, because the reason you > > mentioned that an application can provide hi-res bitmaps etc. From a Firefox > > point of view, I can say that there is no *technical* reason, i.e. setting > > devPixelsPerPx to a float value by hand (as Kai Mast has reported), produces > > the desired result - Firefox scales the content according to the preference. > > There are similar reasons re images from web content. > Firefox will scale, but will only render without interpolation if the web > content supports the resolution. > > See also https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1081142#c10 > > > Comparing this > > to the Windows behaviour: the set scaling it read from the system as is, > > with no rounding applied. > > Windows usually scales in steps, 1, 1.25, 1.5, 2 (and maybe higher). > > Adding a 1.5 step makes sense, I think, especially because this is supported > on Windows, and so has some chance of support from web authors. > > I'm not so keen on adding 1.25 because the benefits of a different size don't > necessarily outweigh the disadvantage of likely interpolation. At 1.25, > Windows defaults (in some versions at least) to XP scaling, which scales > font sizes but not pixels. Doing this in web content broke too many sites. > The goal is to pick what will be best for most and layout.css.devPixelsPerPx > is available for those where this doesn't work out.
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