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There's nothing special about the browser. Bitmap images are blurred by fractional scaling. That is inevitable.



Yes but the fonts, boxes and lines are all fine. And on the web the image issue is usually resolved by starting hi res to begin with and sampling down not up.

When people complain about desktop apps not scaling they aren't complaining about the odd icon, it's the whole app looking like a smeary mess because it's not using vector based graphics. Fronts, grid lines etc. become blurry.




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