[webkit-dev] Removing target-densitydpi (was Re: Device and page scaling)

[Adam Barth]

I think folks agree that these are important use cases.  The
disagreement is about how to address them.  For example, another
approach is to use responsive images (e.g., srcset and image-set)
together with device units in CSS.  Now that WebKit has support for
subpixel layout, we can provide a high quality implementation of these
features.

By contrast, target-densitydpi does not have broad support from
implementors, and there are concerns about the quality of the current
implementation and its maintainability.

Adam


On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Konrad Piascik <kpiascik at rim.com> wrote:
> Reposting comment from Bug 88047
>
> After discussing this internally we believe that while the current implementation of target-densitydpi is not ideal it's ability to allow you scale your viewport to a given target density as well as to allow you to not scale (deviceDPI) are both desired features of this API that we'd like to have available to developers.
>
> This is useful for 2 cases:
> 1) automatically scaling content to the AutoValue (ie 160) DPI, which is what most mobile optimized sites do
> 2) allowing the user to have pixel perfect rendering on a given device.
>
> -Konrad
> ________________________________________
> From: webkit-dev-bounces at lists.webkit.org [webkit-dev-bounces at lists.webkit.org] on behalf of Adam Barth [abarth at webkit.org]
> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 2:21 AM
> To: Maciej Stachowiak
> Cc: kenneth at webkit.org; webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org
> Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] Device and page scaling
>
> I've posted a patch to remove target-densitydpi:
>
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88047
>
> There's some concern that target-densitydpi is used by some apps that
> are bundled with Android, but folks appear willing to deprecate the
> feature and to migrate those apps to using other mechanisms, such as
> responsive images and CSS device units.
>
> Once that patch lands, I'll start to unwind the complexity introduced
> by the feature.
>
> Thanks,
> Adam