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.
>
>
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