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Screen.colorDepth and Screen.pixelDepth can return other value than 24

Category

Graphics

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 59)

Intent stage

None

Summary

The Screen object is no longer required to return 24 for colorDepth and pixelDepth. It enables websites to have a better idea of the number of bits being used to display a color on the screen.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://drafts.csswg.org/cssom-view/#screen
• Firefox: Positive
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: Positive
• Tracking bug: https://crbug.com/701466

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen/colorDepth https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen/pixelDepth

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