Name used by Apple for their liquid crystal displays with a high pixel density.
Questions tagged [retina]
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SVG shape not sharp on non-retina, but sharp on retina

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Browser download images from srcset and original image
For example i have such img:
On normal, not retina displays, browser only download image-520.jpg but on retina displays, both chrome desktop and safari…


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Wrong screen size for Retina display in Matlab
I use Matlab on my MacBook Pro with Retina display.
Using get(0,'ScreenSize'), we obtain
ans =
1 1 1440 900
instead of 1 1 2880 1800. Is there any way to work with right sizes?

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How do I enable HiDPI (Retina) support in a Qt4 OpenGL application?
I am using a QGraphicsScene with a QGraphicsView, as described in this document. I intend to eventually overlay Qt widgets on top of my OpenGL rendered scene.
When I launch a dummy application modeled after the tutorial above, the rendered view is…

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Cropped iOS Image comes back too large
Been trying to fix this problem all day to no avail.
Pretty much, I'm taking a screenshot of the view, then trying to crop out the first 50px and a footer. Problem is that when I do this, the result is a little blowed up, and quality is lost.…

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picturefill.js doesn't serve retina images properly
How can I use picturefill to serve retina images?
Currently I'm using the second version of picturefill.js which works as a polyfill.
My HTML code is:

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Custom google maps marker from sprite and retina proof
I've learnt that when I would like to use sprites as google Map markers, I need to put it like this:
var myIcon = new google.maps.MarkerImage(
"../public/img/categories.png",
new google.maps.Size(90, 50),
new google.maps.Point(0,…

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Text blurry when running nonuniversal iPhone app on iPad
Basically I'm trying to retinafy my game
So my application isn't universal, its specifically for the iPhone. I just would like to to also look its best when running on the iPad.
I've created a simple method to load the high resolution images when…

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Swiper slider animation + SVG mask transform performance issues only on RETINA display
I need help with animation performance on RETINA display
I have a swiper slider and on slideTranasitionStart I'm animating a mask (covering the whole slider).
Codepen link here.
The animation is very smooth in all browsers. I'm using an external…

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What is the WPF equivalent of Cocoa/CSS image.png/image@2x.png concept?
For a Mac/iOS application to support retina/high fidelity screens, additional double-resolution bitmap images need to be included with "@2x" just before the file extension. E.g.:
logo.png (32x32)
logo@2x.png (64x64)
In code we only need to refer…

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Getting Some errors from Retina.js, While web page loaded on high end PC
Am a beginner in JQuery, while testing my web application on high-end PC (specifically say when using windows 10 setting scale and layout>change the size of text apps and other items to 150% ) 'retina.min.js' showing some errors from following…

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HiDPI / backingScaleFactor on MacOS, how to get actual value?
I'm trying to get the display scaling setting for the current screen so that I can correctly scale inside my OpenGL and/or Vulkan window to match the setting that the OS has. The documentation says to use
float dpi = [window…

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Retina image in signature on Windows Outlook remains blurry
I just wasted some hours of my life trying to get an retina image to work in a Outlook signature on a Windows machine.
It does work on Mac Mail and on Mac Outlook. But with Outlook on Windows does the image keep getting blurry on the receiving end.…

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Strange table-border behavior in Safari/Retina
I'm trying to do some unusual thing, but Safari is more strange than me, I guess.
I want to make table with fixed first column. So, overs columns will scroll horizontally.
I'm positioning first in a row absolutely and overs show with…

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iOS Accessing UIScreen on Background Thread
I have a method that is in charge of loading details about events (queries a sqlite database for titles, descriptions, thumbnail paths, etc.) that, since I need to call this for a large amount of events, I am dispatching to a background thread using…

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