On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Kornel Lesiński <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 17 May 2012 16:05:13 +0100, Tab Atkins Jr. <[email protected]> > wrote: >>> Necessity to specify 2x scaling all the time will become a bad default >>> and a historical quirk (like the DOCTYPE), and a source of annoyance where >>> accidentally omitted "2x" syntax makes images large and pixelated. >> >> I think that 2x only looks like a good default now. I would bet that >> in less than 10 years 3x or higher will look like a good default. > > So why is 1x the default when it's obvious that it is not going to be a good > default?
Because it's simple (1 image pixel = 1 CSS pixel), and it was the historical default. ~TJ
