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jackalope on Nov 21, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: High-DPI displays and Linux

I thought the whole point of High-DPI was to was to free us from the need to render graphics pixel-perfect at native resolution. While scaling bitmaps will probably be necessary for photographs and most video for a long time, can't everything else be rendered using SVG? Does such an environment already exist?

wmf on Nov 21, 2014 [–]

There was a good discussion of this topic yesterday in the iPhone screen thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8634662

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