I think folks agree that these are important use cases. The disagreement is about how to address them. For example, another approach is to use responsive images (e.g., srcset and image-set) together with device units in CSS. Now that WebKit has support for subpixel layout, we can provide a high quality implementation of these features.
By contrast, target-densitydpi does not have broad support from implementors, and there are concerns about the quality of the current implementation and its maintainability. Adam On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Konrad Piascik <[email protected]> wrote: > Reposting comment from Bug 88047 > > After discussing this internally we believe that while the current > implementation of target-densitydpi is not ideal it's ability to allow you > scale your viewport to a given target density as well as to allow you to not > scale (deviceDPI) are both desired features of this API that we'd like to > have available to developers. > > This is useful for 2 cases: > 1) automatically scaling content to the AutoValue (ie 160) DPI, which is what > most mobile optimized sites do > 2) allowing the user to have pixel perfect rendering on a given device. > > -Konrad > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] > [[email protected]] on behalf of Adam Barth > [[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 2:21 AM > To: Maciej Stachowiak > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] Device and page scaling > > I've posted a patch to remove target-densitydpi: > > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88047 > > There's some concern that target-densitydpi is used by some apps that > are bundled with Android, but folks appear willing to deprecate the > feature and to migrate those apps to using other mechanisms, such as > responsive images and CSS device units. > > Once that patch lands, I'll start to unwind the complexity introduced > by the feature. > > Thanks, > Adam _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
