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Media queries. Media queries is a feature of CSS 3 allowing content rendering to adapt to different conditions such as screen resolution (e.g. mobile and desktop screen size). It became a W3C recommended standard in June 2012, [1] and is a cornerstone technology of responsive web design (RWD).
These may also use other aspect ratios by cropping otherwise black bars at the top and bottom which result from cinema aspect ratios greater than 16∶9, such as 1.85 or 2.35 through 2.40 (dubbed "Cinemascope", "21∶9" etc.), while the standard horizontal resolution, e.g. 1920 pixels, is usually kept.
Display size. On 2D displays, such as computer monitors and TVs, display size or viewable image size (VIS) refers to the physical size of the area where pictures and videos are displayed. The size of a screen is usually described by the length of its diagonal, which is the distance between opposite corners, typically measured in inches.
Media type. In information and communications technology, a media type, [1][2] content type[2][3] or MIME type[1][4][5] is a two-part identifier for file formats and content formats . Their purpose is comparable to filename extensions and uniform type identifiers, in that they identify the intended data format.
The favored aspect ratio of mass-market display industry products has changed gradually from 4:3, then to 16:10, then to 16:9, and has now changed to 18:9 for smartphones. [7] [needs update] The 4:3 aspect ratio generally reflects older products, especially the era of the cathode ray tube (CRT).
The file size distribution of publicly available audio and video data files follows a log-normal distribution over five orders of magnitude. [84] File sizes of 140 million files on personal computers running the Windows OS, collected in 1999. [85] [54] Sizes of text-based emails (1990s) and multimedia-based emails (2000s). [54]
1080p progressive scan HDTV, which uses a 16:9 ratio. Some commentators also use display resolution to indicate a range of input formats that the display's input electronics will accept and often include formats greater than the screen's native grid size even though they have to be down-scaled to match the screen's parameters (e.g. accepting a 1920 × 1080 input on a display with a native 1366 ...
HTTP Live Streaming (also known as HLS) is an HTTP -based adaptive bitrate streaming communications protocol developed by Apple Inc. and released in 2009. Support for the protocol is widespread in media players, web browsers, mobile devices, and streaming media servers. As of 2022, an annual video industry survey has consistently found it to be ...