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The downside was, that UI design was visual, Delphi used absolute positioned layout and everyone was using pixels (despite VCL supporting pt<->px). Allaire Hom
by vetinari 9y ago
The downside was, that UI design was visual, Delphi used absolute positioned layout and everyone was using pixels (despite VCL supporting pt<->px).
Allaire Homesite (one of the early HTML editors), written in Deplhi, was one of the first apps that openly ignored the pt sizing and was broken on computers with Large Fonts setting enabled. After that, everyone started ignoring the DPI, and that is what got us into today's HiDPI mess.
Yes, I was pissed of at the time. I was using Large fonts. During a short time, that option became unusable, because nobody bothered with DPI, when drag and drop UI design is so easy.