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What is the physical aspect ratio of your laptop ? 'cause the AR of your display resolution is 16:10
I wonder if it's not worth to size everything in inches in the CSS. Alas we'll have to go for the lower common size, which should be around 12 inches in width, and it won't make the images crisper. At least everything should look the same on different monitors.

I've never tried to use the in unit in CSS, so I don't know if the rendering engines take the resolution into account to adapt the number of dpi. But that's worth trying it for the sake of forward compatibility.

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Yep, in stands for inches. Check the Length units chapter of the CSS2 specs for more infos about the many units available in CSS.

Alas, the browsers I've tested ( IE6.0, FF0.9, FF0.1.0, MZ1.7.3 ) doesn't seem to try to evaluate the actual DPI resolution based on the display resolution. It would have been too good if the browsers inquired the OS to retrieve the physical size of the monitor ( which is generally available via its drivers ).

liquid crystal technology is still not what it's all cracked to be. It is not point based rendering technology and therefore you may have troubles when processing resolution changing operations. Before, the market trend was to produce lcd monitors with a fixed resolution, and that would be its maximum.


Any decrease in the resolution would therefore result in a decreased display size or a resampled full-screen display size. Now they use other methods for the resampling, which i really don't have knowldege to describe accurately here. But i would be pretty sure that, on this subject that you refer to, cathode tube monitors (CRT) would give you no trouble.

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