Talk:Resolution independence

message: "This laptop has a display that is resolution independent and provides options to scale the display by showing relative resolution. The display can be given more or less screen space whilst not changing the actual display resolution."
The physical display is not the issue in resolution indepence. Displays can show different resolutions, but obviously "native" will look the best, but this is not resolution independence. Also, how can the the display be given more screen space? It can't grow, it's a set size. More pixels on the screen does not equal more screen space, it simply equals more pixels on the screen.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Just6979 (talk • contribs) 08:56, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: This doesn't make sense...

message: According to , the scaling factor is a system wide setting. Doesn't anybody else strike this as a bad idea in every multi-monitor setup (like laptop + external monitor), where monitors very likely don't all have the same resolution? Peter S. 16:55, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Interesting point! I hadn't thought of that. I think it might still make sense in consistency terms if the actual pixel size is the same on all the monitors, but otherwise it could look weird, yeah. —Zootm 16:01, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

text: Well my question is actually this: Since a future Mac OS will need to be able to dynamically scale windows up and down when they move from screen to screen, and since applications need to know what the current resolution for a window is, will the current api (for which some companies have already added support) be sufficient for this cause or will Apple have to create another one? Hope this makes sense... Peter S. 15:44, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Conceptual error in Apple's implementation?

message: Some anonymous user added this: . Can somebody confirm that Windows Vista will include Resolution independence? Peter S. 15:44, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I work at an IT help center and just installed the final version of Vista and, no, it is not resolution independent (though I can't prove this on here.) Big surprise.
Microsoft OS supports resolution independence in a certain sense for a long time. It was already possible to freely set the display DPI in Windows 95, and Windows 3.1 already supported 2 modes ('large fonts = 120dpi' and 'small fonts = 96dpi').
Unluckily there was not much support from the OS above the possibility to define the target resolution, so each application had to adapt itself, and most didn't, or did it at most for the 2 standard modes
. Vista seems to have more support . 82.136.112.72 22:20, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

text: If anyone wants to have a look at Vista's resolution independence "in action" and decide for themselves, there's a nice little applet here that lets you see the same screenshot in 96 DPI, 120 DPI, 144 DPI, and 192 DPI modes.  -- simxp (talk) 12:52, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

text: You misunderstand.  The "96, 120, 144 or 192 dpi" are merely the resolutions that the author of the article chose to take his screenshots at.  Windows Vista itself (as, even if you have never used Vista, which you clearly haven't, 10 seconds of Googling would show) allows arbitrary dpi to be set, up to a certain point (480, IIRC?).  It provides an on-screen ruler (screenshot) which you can drag in order to match an actual ruler; similar to your circle example. -- simxp (talk) 15:36, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: IIRC the ruler thing and any DPI setting has been available since perhaps Windows 98 although as mrentioned above support for non standard settings (or even the large 120 DPI) setting was limited. Nil Einne (talk) 09:14, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Windows Vista? 

message: Resolution independence should also include Adobe's PostScript, and Display PostScript.  It's too focused on operating systems. --Navstar 22:40, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Entry to narrow 

message: I propose merging Vector-based graphical user interface into this.  Both articles are trying to cover the same ground, and though there's a lot of overlap at the moment, there's also a lot of good information in that article that this one could use.  Thoughts?  -- simxp (talk) 12:52, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge proposal

message: OSX has a lot fewer problems with this now than it did in 2005.  iPhone OS also supports it.  I suggest the above merge proposal be followed so that this info can be maintained more easily in one place.  Telanis (talk) 20:24, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: There are also some development in the Linux world that could be added.--89.100.89.24 (talk) 17:05, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Out of date

message: It just doubles the resolution of OS X in every direction. Is that technically resolution independence? -- Meow 03:59, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Retina display 

message: Is the article about desktop environments or operating systems?  It may be a little confusing on that front.  If OS, why isn't LInux mentioned? - KitchM (talk) 15:33, 25 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Desktops versus OS