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This is one of the more important Hacker News submissions I've seen in a long time. It seems that there is, potentially, a fundamental disconnect between what "px" is supposed to mean and what it means in practice . Given the incredible importance of the web, particularly the front-end of the web, and the extraordinary increases in screen resolution (today the iPhone 4 and iPad 3, tomorrow most computers), it's very…
This is dumb. The fact that one pixel subtends a particular visual angle does not imply that N pixels subtend N times that angle. It should be very plain to anybody implementing or using a rendering engine that pixels are intended to be linearly additive. This implies that N pixels will subtend less than N times the angle one pixel subtends. On a flat screen, this is normal and expected, because a pixel further from…
This is dumb. The fact that one pixel subtends a particular visual angle does not imply that N pixels subtend N times that angle. It should be very plain to anybody implementing or using a rendering engine that pixels are intended to be linearly additive. This implies that N pixels will subtend less than N times the angle one pixel subtends. On a flat screen, this is normal and expected, because a pixel further from…
This is one of the more important Hacker News submissions I've seen in a long time. It seems that there is, potentially, a fundamental disconnect between what "px" is supposed to mean and what it means in practice . Given the incredible importance of the web, particularly the front-end of the web, and the extraordinary increases in screen resolution (today the iPhone 4 and iPad 3, tomorrow most computers), it's very…
I'm afraid this boat has long sailed. The "pixel" term is in the CSS 2.1 Spec. It's set in stone. Personally I've made peace with it. I say either "CSS pixels" or "device pixels", depending on what I want to express. And although the high resolution screens have only made the difference between the two more visible, it was there since Opera featured full pages zoom many years ago, and when Mobile Safari introduced th…
This is dumb. The fact that one pixel subtends a particular visual angle does not imply that N pixels subtend N times that angle. It should be very plain to anybody implementing or using a rendering engine that pixels are intended to be linearly additive. This implies that N pixels will subtend less than N times the angle one pixel subtends. On a flat screen, this is normal and expected, because a pixel further from…
That's actually a very good point, don't know why you're being downvoted.
I suspect I know why I was downvoted; I used unnecessary emotive language ("dumb") and didn't explain my point clearly. Most of the rest of the commenters were focused on one part of the article's point, which is very relevant -- the idea that a pixel is no longer a pixel, but a particular fraction of an inch of screen space. I was complaining about a different part, which is the article author's claim that the function mapping real pixels to CSS pixels is nonlinear (which I think is just a misreading of what the spec intended.)
This is one of the more important Hacker News submissions I've seen in a long time. It seems that there is, potentially, a fundamental disconnect between what "px" is supposed to mean and what it means in practice . Given the incredible importance of the web, particularly the front-end of the web, and the extraordinary increases in screen resolution (today the iPhone 4 and iPad 3, tomorrow most computers), it's very…
So basically use em, like we should have all along?
I've mentioned this before and I'm not the first to say it, but it's time to stop using px and start using in its place absolute measurements like inches or millimeters. It's the only sane approach to supporting different resolution displays.
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That includes me. Making a pixel not be a pixel is surely one of the great pooch-screws of modern standards. 'pt' existed to be resolution-independent.
If they had set 1 px = 1 pixel, almost all Web pages would be unreadably small. AFAIK, Web designers don't use pt.