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Will the Mac finally get Resolution Scaling?
By: Jayesh Mansukhani   |   May 20,2006
A lot of rumors have been doing the rounds regarding the upcoming upgrade “Leopard” better known as OS X 10.5. From full screen window virtualization to more secure computing... take your pick.

While going through various posts and comments on this pending issue, I came across a very interesting post on which the author has speculated on if OS X will finally get “resolution scaling”. For all you guys who just went HUH?!?, resolution scaling is used to refer to dynamic resizing of webpage contents in normal parlance. However, here it takes on a different connotation. There are quite a bunch of Mac variants out there with different screen sizes ranging from standard to widescreen to just plain huge. Creating applications for this causes problems for developers as an app made for a certain size screen will simply not scale up or down on a larger or smaller display. It will shrink to a rather miniscule or larger than screen size and just plain look stupid. If resolution scaling is to be implemented developers would have a standard codebase to work with and their apps would scale automatically according to screen size.

Apple had indicated it would do implement this as long back as the launch of OS X. Looks like they are finally moving on it in Leopard

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Apple's leap into P2P ... Ars Technica - Boston,MA,USA With three months and five days until WWDC, it is high time we get down to the what's really important: speculating wildly on Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard.". ... Will the Mac finally get Resolution Scaling? Moneycontrol Tech Blog - Mumbai,MH,India A lot of rumors have been doing the rounds regarding the upcoming upgrade “Leopard” better known as OS X 10.5. From full screen ... Hit and myth Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard & Macs on Intel (MacTel) @ Jun 21,2006
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