On 5/18/13 12:20 AM, Jack Moxley wrote:
As such having it done for me, does not appeal, unless I have a way of
overriding it.
Absolutely we should strive to allow any app to manage its own pixel
registration. But, we do need to do something by default to avoid
completely unreadable apps for those who aren't paying attention to the
screen resolution.
Also note that apps already experience a default high resolution
mechanism in printing. You wouldn't design a printing API that requires
an app developer to draw everything 4-8x larger in order to be able to
read their printouts. But, you do want them to be able to customize
what they print if they want the best quality.
Right now Apple "handles it for you" with pixel stretching. Until we
added retina support we were being managed that way and it got passed on
to our apps as blurriness. We currently "handle it for you" with a
hidden coordinate transform that keeps most things generally crisp, but
we don't yet communicate that default scale to the apps so that they can
customize it further.
For Win8 and MS Surface I think we will probably need to have a default
scale to keep apps from being too small to manage, but it will also be a
little more critical to pass on the info because the non-integer scales
are less friendly to the assumptions that they might make...
...jim
