Closed Bug 800999 Opened 12 years ago Closed 11 years ago

Browser views

Categories

(Firefox for Metro Graveyard :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox for Metro Graveyard
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows 8.1
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 831678

People

(Reporter: ally, Assigned: asa)

Details

(Keywords: meta, Whiteboard: [metro-mvp] [LOE:-]) 

there are questions about what the scope/definition of this feature will be.
OS: Mac OS X → Windows 8 Metro
Let's make this a tracking bug, and file dependent bugs for any specific changes we should make to our UI to accommodate different screen sizes or orientations.
Keywords: feature → meta, uiwanted
Summary: implement adaptive layout → [tracking] Make the Metro UI layout adapt to different screen sizes/shapes
Depends on: 797833
Bug 797833 has some useful comments about supporting displays with different pixel density.

I haven't looked deeply into how Metro apps handle different display densities, but this MSDN article has a good summary.  Similar to Android, it looks like Metro has three nominal hardware pixel densities of about 135dpi, 190dpi, and 240dpi.  Metro uses a device-pixel::px ratio of 1.0, 1.4, or 1.8 depending on the device:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/03/21/scaling-to-different-screens.aspx
Whiteboard: [metro-mvp] → [metro-mvp] [LOE:-]
Depends on: 816814
Assignee: nobody → ywang
Keywords: uiwanted
The Metro half of Windows 8 has an entirely new windowing system. These stories cover how Firefox will take advantage of the various window configurations Microsoft offers with Metro-style apps.
Assignee: ywang → asa
Summary: [tracking] Make the Metro UI layout adapt to different screen sizes/shapes → Browser views
Whiteboard: [metro-mvp] [LOE:-] → eppic [metro-mvp] [LOE:-]
Whiteboard: eppic [metro-mvp] [LOE:-] → epic [metro-mvp] [LOE:-]
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
No longer depends on: 797833, 816814
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Whiteboard: epic [metro-mvp] [LOE:-] → [metro-mvp] [LOE:-]
OS: Windows 8 Metro → Windows 8.1
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