Re: FYI - Resolution Independence
Re: FYI - Resolution Independence
- Subject: Re: FYI - Resolution Independence
- From: David Bainbridge <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:33:07 -0500
On Oct 27, 2007, at 7:05 AM, Alastair Houghton wrote:
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.
There was a 2007 WWDC session (161, Making Your Custom Controls,
Icons, and Artwork Resolution Independent) that informed us how we
need to make sure our apps were all resolution independent before
Leopard shipped.
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