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Anas Rida
8,183 PointsHD displays
Hi,
I have a question about the screen sizes. When we a breakpoint for a certain pixel size, does that imply the actual physical dimension of the screen or the screen resolution. Some new smartphones have very high pixel density for a small screen, will this affect the CSS and is there a away around this? Many thanks
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Bryce Santos
11,157 PointsThe resolution. Here's a site to get an idea of what you'd be dealing with as far as media query breakpoint sizes.
https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/media-queries-for-standard-devices/
Bryce Santos
11,157 Pointshttp://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2010/04/a_pixel_is_not.html
There's a difference between CSS pixels and device pixels. This article helps differentiate between the two.
So YES websites theoretically should work on every device.
Anas Rida
8,183 PointsAnas Rida
8,183 PointsSo basically this means, that a website will never be able to run on every possible device. Especially now that there are devices with ridiculously high pixel counts on small screens.