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kallebootoday at 12:21 AM0 repliesview on HN

OS X could do it, they actually used to support enabling fractional rendering like this through a developer tool (Quartz Debug)

There were multiple problems making it actually look good though - ranging from making things line up properly at fractional sizes (e.g. a "1 point line" becomes blurry at 1.25 scale), and that most applications use bitmap images and not vector graphics for their icons (and this includes the graphic primitives Apple used for the "lickable" button throughout the OS.

edit: I actually have an iMac G4 here so I took some screenshots since I couldn't find any online. Here is MacOS X 10.4 natively rendering windows at fractional sizes: https://kalleboo.com/linked/os_x_fractional_scaling/

IIRC later versions of OS X than this actually had vector graphics for buttons/window controls