On 2/6/12 3:10 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
On 6 Feb 2012, at 18:58, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
On 2/6/12 1:55 PM, Irakli Nadareishvili wrote:
Many thanks to everybody who has responded and for a lively and a productive
discussion!
Quick clarification: the proposal is to include *device* capabilities in the HTTP
headers, so when we say "screen width and height" we mean device screen width
and height which is constant
Again, it's not constant in the terms that the page sees, which are CSS pixels,
not device pixels.
Media queries and explicit widths make this statement false, in a practical way.
How so, exactly?
We adjust for physical pixels quite happily by specifying a width on the image.
The width you specify is in CSS pixels. If the device is running at
200dpi, and you specify a 100px width for your image, it'll make the
image 200 device pixels wide.
They're then down sampled into physical pixels even though CSS is using CSS
pixels.
You assume "downsampled", but it can just as easily be "upsampled".
But again, my point was that the "width of the screen" in CSS pixels is
not an invariant. If you set your image to be "100px" wide, then on the
very same device it can be all sorts of fractions of the width of the
screen, depending on UA settings.
-Boris
