Timeline for Why don't web browsers know the physical dimensions of a display?
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| Apr 3, 2020 at 6:45 | comment | added | Basile Starynkevitch | In general, it cannot, in particular if the website is seen from a poor country where CRT are commonplace. | |
| Apr 3, 2020 at 5:28 | comment | added | gnasher729 | The question is: How can a website display a line that is exactly one inch long? When I display things on a 17 inch monitor and you display on a 60 inch screen? | |
| Apr 3, 2020 at 2:14 | history | edited | Basile Starynkevitch | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 2, 2020 at 19:03 | history | edited | Basile Starynkevitch | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 2, 2020 at 17:46 | comment | added | TZubiri | Yeah, even if the occuppies half the screen, having the physical dimensions of half the screen is what the qeustion is about. It's good to know that monitors started reporting their screen dimensions after vga. | |
| Apr 2, 2020 at 13:55 | history | edited | Basile Starynkevitch | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 2, 2020 at 13:48 | history | edited | Basile Starynkevitch | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 2, 2020 at 13:45 | comment | added | marstato | The point is not whether the window size allows for the requested dimensions but whether, given that the requested dimension fits within the window, it is accurate. | |
| Apr 2, 2020 at 13:43 | history | edited | Basile Starynkevitch | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 2, 2020 at 13:38 | history | answered | Basile Starynkevitch | CC BY-SA 4.0 |