Can graphical scaling be made configurable to enable precise measurement? (mm/px/pt/in/etc)
asked 2014-12-27 23:35:23 +0200
http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/units.en.html
This W3C page (screenshot, from a Jolla device, below) is dismissive of the value, in certain cases, of unifying length measurements.
The Jolla phone would set itself apart if it enabled a browser configuration option to honour scaling of measurements given in CSS where a cm on screen was exactly that. The screen dimensions and pixel-to-length-units on display are not accurate.
The option would be off by default because the setting would change the way some HTML/CSS displays - but much content would be unaffected. The advantage of turning the option on is that it lets me create local web pages on the device that fit my needs. I can emulate pulley menu behaviour in the browser. It would possibly also become easier to add in a scale display during zoom actions, using the user-configured scale (cm, in, %, px, etc).
This may not do much of use on a projector screen image, but on a Jolla screen, whose dimensions are known, it could be helpful.
Sites for which this question may be significant, to display content as (presumably) intended:
interesting, regarding that 1 inch / 2.54 cm example below it is displayed on my jolla as 1.5 cm. Together app webview shows it as 1 cm. both quite far off.
(on a win8.1 machine with chrome, 1920x1080 on 24" it's very accurate)
nightmare ( 2015-01-11 11:19:52 +0200 )edit