On: Firefox 18 Gets Support for Retina Display

[masklinn]

> Why is it Firefox's problem if Apple didn't bother to go to the trouble of making non-Retina applications readable on a Retina display?

I'm not sure what they could have done beyond making sure Cocoa's text-rendering routines produce the right "retina" output. Which they do. Firefox (and Chrome) do their own text rendering and rasterizing, as far as OSX can see it they give it a big image to display. Not much OSX can do with that.

[asadotzler → masklinn]

they could have not pixel doubled the applications and instead let them be smaller and still crisp.

[masklinn → asadotzler]

Crisp is not very useful when you can't read the text or view the pictures because they're a quarter of their "intended" physical size.