[whatwg] Processing the zoom level - MS extensions to window.screen

Robert O'Callahan robert at ocallahan.org
Sun Nov 21 16:12:12 PST 2010


On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Charles Pritchard <chuck at jumis.com> wrote:

> Rob: Mobile deployments using dpiPixelRatio (as has been adopted by Moz and
> Webkit) and target-DpiDensity work well on the mobile, they are not hooked
> to zoom on the desktop,
>

It is in Firefox.


> and they were not designed for desktop-style zoom. Trying to overload these
> variables leads to difficulties between the various mobile style zooms and
> desktop zoom.
>

I'm not sure why. Device-pixel-ratio should give you the ratio of device
pixels to CSS pixels, full stop. You can use matchMedium to use it from JS.

Rob
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