On 09/07/2013 02:20, Janet Lynn Ford wrote:
1. Is there a way to target this with media queries (I read that now one
can target dpi, but I am curious if any one is doing so, what the problems
and/or negative effects of doing so will be.
I think this is part of the response to the issue that media queries for
physical widths didn't really mean much, because all browsers previously
pretended that the display was always 96DPI. This made it
difficult/impossible for media queries to distinguish between a
1280x720px 20" monitor and a 1280x720px 4.5" mobile phone. For some
background:
http://css-tricks.com/high-dpi-monitors-resolution-independance-the-web-and-you/
http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2010/04/a_pixel_is_not.html
2. Does this seem strange to others? I feel like I am back in 1996 and
facing the IE/Netscape browser wars once again.
There is a quite a lot of discussion about this on the Mozilla bug:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=844604
3. Is this just the wave of the future and will all browsers be doing this
as well?
The relevant Chromium defect is here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=844604
From reading through the Mozilla and Chromium defects it seems that
IE10 has already implemented a similar behaviour to Firefox.
Rob
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