about resolution independence...

[Richard Gaskin]

Colin Holgate wrote:

 > What it is not: Something that will automatically layout your
 > interface, using different styled buttons, or different arrangements
 > of controls. If you're doing an app that needs different layout for
 > portrait and landscape, or different buttons for small screens
 > compared to large screens, then that's more like the current geometry
 > manager, plus some code logic.
 >
 > What it is: The ability to layout your app with a given aspect ratio,
 > and then have that layout fill a device screen of the same ratio,
 > even though the device is a different pixel size.

And what it could be:

If this mechanism could be applied to groups as well as cards, we could 
use it to provide zoomable views for our users in all sorts of apps.

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