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Windows 8 Has Scaling Issues On High-PPI Displays
crookedvulture writes "High-PPI displays are becoming increasingly popular on tablets and notebooks, but Windows 8 may not be ready for them. On a 13" notebook display with a 1080p resolution, the RTM version of Win8 scales up some desktop UI elements nicely. However, there are serious issues with Metro, which produces tiles and text that are either too small or too large depending on the PPI setting used. That setting, by the way, is a simple on/off switch that tells the OS to 'make everything bigger.' Web browsing is particularly problematic, with Internet Explorer 10 introducing ugly rendering artifacts when scaling pages in both Metro and desktop modes. Clearly, there's work to be done on the OS side to properly support higher pixel densities."
Apple created a market of stupid people wanting VGA sized UI displayed on 2560 X 1440 screens just so their rounded corners are not as fuzzy.
I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.
Microsoft developed the APIs. Give developers a way to use an API in a stupid way, and they will do so.
Still, could be worse: I remember the days when our video drivers had to always report 72DPI to Windows regardless of what the real value was because half the apps would render garbage if it wasn't set to 72.
Yeah, is there any OS that handles this quite right?
iOS and OSX. And that's all. Of course, you get the whole Apple package in which there might be elements you dislike.
Write boring code, not shiny code!