Last modified: 2008-07-10 23:06:24 UTC
Not so much a specific request, but a plea for developer involvement in the discussion at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style#Watering_down_of_non-use_of__pixel_sizes.
As long as we deal in raster images, there's not a good feasible way to size images based on window size (and even if there was, it's probably not a good idea). As a totally separate issue, it would be nice if the default thumb size varied appropriately with images of different aspect ratios -- the fixed width system is pretty crappy at this, which is a large part of the reason explicit sizes are often used. In general, though, "pixel"s are the only actually portable size specifier for the web -- and they don't refer to physical device pixels for extremely high-resolution devices such as printers and high-resolution displays (on systems actually optimized for it with resolution-independent UIs -- most current systems are *altogether awful* on high-resolution displays, by which I mean high-DPI displays, not "really big screens with lots of pixels" which have relatively low pixel densities, and are perfect for nice pixel-specified images and *many windows* on the screen at once). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 495 ***
