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

[Ian Hickson]

On Fri, 13 May 2011, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> > 
> > It's pretty much the entire point of that API. That's why it has 
> > separate height/width information than the canvas. It has to be that 
> > way because there's no guarantee that CSS pixels will map to device 
> > pixels -- and that's not theoretical, there are shipping devices with 
> > high-density screens already (e.g. the iPhone).
> 
> It's still unobvious and doesn't happen on desktop browsers, so I can't 
> see it not causing broken pages.  To people developing on desktops, it 
> just looks like a 1:! 2d slice API that stashes the size in the 
> ImageData for convenience, which is all I've ever seen it as, having 
> never seen it behave otherwise.

Yes, it's possible the getImageData() API is doomed to only exposing CSS 
pixels, in which case we'll likely add an argument so people can opt-in to 
the high-res version once technology has advanced such that doing so would 
likely not give a 1:1 mapping in most cases. (There's no point doing that 
today, since we'd just end up in the same problem again currently.)

This has been discussed a _lot_ on this list over the past few years. I 
recommend searching for "putImageData" and "getImageData" in the archives.

Cheers,
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