DPI started to go a little crazy when mobile devices were introduced. This is a good history:
http://www.html5rocks.com/en/mobile/high-dpi/ And you can see that iDevices have screens with varied ppi: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1365112/what-dpi-resolution-is-used-for-an-iphone-app As for Daniel's desire for bliss, I think the html5rocks article does a good job of showing how to use srcset and build safe fallbacks for it. I feel like that's the right approach because as browsers mature we can just turn off the fallback. On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Antoine Musso <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 18/09/12 09:31, Brion Vibber a écrit : > > More recently, tablets and a few laptops are bringing 1.5x and 2.0x > density > > displays too, such as the new Retina iPad and MacBook Pro. > > Please excuse my noobiness, but what 1.5x / 2.0x densities are referring > to? IIRC most computers used 72dpi and Microsoft as used 96dpi. > > > -- > Antoine "hashar" Musso > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
