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		tlb on March 12, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CSS px is an Angular Measurement Images and <canvas> and <embed> use actual pixels. It's hard to make things look right when you don't have the same unit in CSS.

wmf on March 12, 2012 [–]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but I don't think this is correct; the browser should scale everything. See http://joubert.posterous.com/crisp-html-5-canvas-text-on-mob... for example.

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