DPI started to go a little crazy when mobile devices were introduced. This
is a good history:
http://www.html5rocks.com/en/mobile/high-dpi/
And you can see that iDevices have screens with varied ppi:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1365112/what-dpi-resolution-is-used-for-…
As for Daniel's desire for bliss, I think the html5rocks article does a
good job of showing how to use srcset and build safe fallbacks for it. I
feel like that's the right approach because as browsers mature we can just
turn off the fallback.
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Antoine Musso <hashar+wmf(a)free.fr> wrote:
Le 18/09/12 09:31, Brion Vibber a écrit :
More recently, tablets and a few laptops are
bringing 1.5x and 2.0x
density
displays too, such as the new Retina iPad and
MacBook Pro.
Please excuse my noobiness, but what 1.5x / 2.0x densities are referring
to? IIRC most computers used 72dpi and Microsoft as used 96dpi.
--
Antoine "hashar" Musso
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