Re: FYI - Resolution Independence
Re: FYI - Resolution Independence
- Subject: Re: FYI - Resolution Independence
- From: Alastair Houghton <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:05:23 +0100
On 27 Oct 2007, at 12:47, Ricky Sharp wrote:
I'm not angry that I spent time making my app res-ind (been doing so
since the Tiger tech talk back in 2004). But, I'm quite
disappointed this feature has not made it to prime time. I'll
continue ensuring my app works well will other scaling factors in
hopes the feature may one day return. And, will still file bugs.
I thought Apple had always made clear that resolution independence, as
an end-user feature, would "go prime time" when high-dpi panels were
shipping in their machines.
I don't think it was ever the intent (at least, as far as I'm aware)
to provide an end-user UI for it before that point, and my guess is
that even when high-dpi panels are shipping with Apple machines,
resolution independence will be *primarily* an automatic feature (i.e.
you plug-in a high-dpi panel, and that panel runs with a non-1.0 scale
factor). It seems to me that the idea of getting us to get our apps
to support RI *now* is that, when the high-dpi panels become readily
available, everything will "just work" in the usual way that people
expect with Apple kit.
I suppose I'm surprised that you're surprised.
(The only query I have really about RI is what happens with machines
that have a normal panel and a high-dpi panel... presumably someone at
Apple has thought this through, or is doing so right now.)
Kind regards,
Alastair.
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http://alastairs-place.net
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