Comment 27 for bug 589485

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:58:07PM -0800, <email address hidden> wrote:
> --- Comment #26 from Andrey Rahmatullin <email address hidden> 2010-02-16 22:58:04 PST ---
> (In reply to comment #20)
> > It was chosen in order to make display of web pages using Xorg more consistent
> > with the way they get displayed on Windows, which by default assumes 96.
>
> Is it an official position of X.org developers? Is it documented anywhere?

Sure, consider it an official position. I don't think it's
unreasonable. Especially if you assume that lower-DPI displays are
likely to be higher-resolution and thus physically huge, meaning that
people sit further away from them, and that displays with a meaningfully
higher DPI are almost always found in phones (as well as some laptops)
these days, meaning that people hold them a great deal closer to their
face.

I do agree that being able to configure the reported DPI (or just Option
"DontForce96DPI") would be entirely useful, but I can't see us changing
anything in the near future, particularly if it breaks web page display.
Saying 'well, don't go to that website then' isn't helpful to anyone at
all, and makes us look like we value strict technical correctness ('but
don't you know what the true definition of a point is?!?') over an
actual working system. While we do value strict technical correctness,
we don't value it to the point of crippling everything else.