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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Jim Diamond via tex-live wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:20200409141357.GD7392@jdiamond-mb.acadiau.ca">I think
"correct" means "if the screen is physically X DPI, then Xshould
report X". <br>
Other people seem to think "correct" means "96, regardless of what
reality is".<br>
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I consider the latter to be a horrible kludge which has become
popular<br>
because it is expedient, but YMMV.<br>
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Blame not the kludgers, Jim, blame the CSS Working Group who defined
the CSS reference pixel to be the visual angle of one pixel on a
device with a pixel density of 96 DPI and a distance from the reader
of an arm’s length. (for the British Standard Arm, clearly: see BS
31415 (1899), as amended).<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/09/css-length-explained/">https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/09/css-length-explained/</a></blockquote>
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<i>Philip Taylor</i><br>
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