On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Shimon Doodkin Support wrote: > > in now days we have different sizes of displays some of them huge with > low resolution and some of them normal but with very tiny dots. usually > the DPI of the development machine is matching the dpi of the VIEWER but > sometimes it doesn't when progress comes and new displays with higher > DPI are manufactured no one buy them because all the text will be very > small and unreadable.
The CSS spec defines the "pixel" as a nominal 96dpi relative unit, to avoid this very problem. HTML5 uses "CSS pixels" whenever discussing dimensions. <canvas> supports higher resolution backing stores. This as far as I can tell HTML5 already deals with this. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
