> Pixels are considered a device-independent unit of measure in Pivot. The idea > is that super-high resolution monitors would increase the scale factor of the > display host to compensate. Microsoft's WPF takes a similar approach. I'm not > sure exactly how Vista handles it, but I'm guessing that it allows you to > scale the entire UI rather than simply increasing the font size. Apple has > also been moving towards a fully-scalable UI - maybe we'll see it in 10.6.
But what if for accessibility's sake, the user has jacked up their system font to 200%, then they run a Pivot app, and everything's too small? It'd be nice if we could detect that condition and auto-scale the display host such that they could see the app :)
