Next in Browser Development, High DPI Websites?

Joost de Valk writes "In a post at the WebKit blog, Dave Hyatt raises interesting points about the future of web development and browsers. He says, that with screens getting more and more pixels, it is imperative website design takes the next step: High DPI Website rendering. This could mean that a CSS pixel (px) is rendered as a 2x2 pixelblock. In the article he also mentions WebKit will be providing possibilities to use SVG for all kinds of purposes, like backgrounds. He calls upon other browser developers to take part in the discussion so that 'concrete standards in this area can be hammered out.'"

Comments

DPI = dixels per inch?

[dr_turgeon]

This is a sort of grammar pet peeve for me and I know it's confusing. Laser printer resolution, for example, is gauged by "dots per inch." [Keep this under your hat, but the density of dots you see on printouts are actually a function of the "line-screen"(!)]

It's nuts, but it helps to think of the dots as made of pixels, or dixels.

I'm surprised that Apple often gets this wrong--being in the business of high-quality graphics and all. Quark (God forbid) calls pixels "dots," too. Strange but true: my colleagues in graphic design usually don't know the difference.

Adobe gets it right.

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