[html5] Absolute Pixels in HTML 5

[Ian Hickson]

On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Felix Miata wrote:
> > 
> > Even on Windows with a non-96dpi, browsers today still assume 96dpi, 
> > as far as I can tell.
> 
> On Windows, some assume 96 (e.g. Safari, which I reported as a Safari 
> bug "UI text is too small for high PPI display environment" 
> https://bugreport.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/RadarWeb.woa/61/wo/APqcRdz7DDWD1jtFE8yeWw/3.79.28.0.9 
> and related Webkit bug http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18001 ), 
> while for others 96 is only a floor (e.g. Gecko). IE uses whatever DPI 
> has been specified for the desktop generally.

No, it doesn't.

   http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/161

96 CSS pixels and one inch are the same in IE8, regardless of the screen 
resolution.


On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Christian Montoya wrote:
>
> 8 years ago I bought a Dell widescreen laptop, Inspiron 6000, and it was 
> pre-configured at 120 DPI. I've been telling people ever since, 96 DPI 
> is not a standard. Dell does this for a lot of widescreen laptops, and 
> that's just 1 vendor.

That is independent of this discussion, as far as I can tell.

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