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[Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 3:40 PM, balint777@xxxxxxxxx
<balint777@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In my opinion the current font size is beatuiful on an HD monitor, much
> nicer than how windows or mac looks on such high resolution. But on a
> traditional screen it really is a bit disturbing. For example, on my
> 1024x600 netbook screen I always have to scale down the fonts to 10-9px for
> the desktop to remain usable. I think it would be the best if we detected
> whether its an HD screen or not and set the font-size based on that data.

I believe we already do that based on what the screen reports as its
pixel density [1].

If the two screens look significantly different, one (or both) of them
are lying. There's very little we can do in that case.

Evan

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_density