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I prefer Electron-based apps to Cocoa apps because my vision is substandard and the Electron-based app I know the best (VSCode) allows me to change the size of

I prefer Electron-based apps to Cocoa apps because my vision is substandard and the Electron-based app I know the best (VSCode) allows me to change the size of all the elements in the window. I have reason to believe other Electron apps will allow the same thing. (Although most Cocoa editors allow me to change the size of the text in the main pane, they do not allow me to change the size of any of the other text or other elements.) I don't have a retina Mac, but I have experimented with a 27-inch iMac in a store: System Preferences > Displays offers a choice of 5 different screen resolutions, but all of them except for the native resolution are IME blurry compared to an Electron app or Chrome (which allows me to change the size of all the elements in the viewport). My vision is not so bad that I don't notice the blurriness even on a retina display. Graphical Emacs is the only app I know of that uses native Cocoa APIs that allows the user to change the size of most of the apps's elements. (It does not allow changes to the size of scroll bars and elements inside pop-up menus, the title bar and the menu bar, but those things don't bother me.)

Wowfunhappy 7y ago
I don't think that functionality is too common among Electron apps? You can't increase the size in Bitwarden, for example. I'm surprised you found the options in System → Displays too blurry. How long ago was this? Modern macs have such high screen resolutions that the slightly uneven scaling shouldn't be a problem. Indeed, on many new Macs the default resolution is not evenly divisible by the screen resolution. On your non-retina Mac, you could use QuickRes to force "retina" resolutions.
- hollerith 7y ago
  You ask how long ago I experimented with the retina iMac. 2 months ago. non-native resolutions didnt look horrible, just not as good as native -- and even at native res, the text on Mac is not as nice / sharp as the text on Windows. and Im not the only comment writer on this site who prefers Windows text rendering even on retina displays.
__d 7y ago
I like http://displaymenu.milchimgemuesefach.de/index.html http://displaymenu.milchimgemuesefach.de/index.html as a means of getting a full range of specific XxY resolutions for macOS (rather than the xs, s, m, l, xl approach in System Preferences).

Wowfunhappy 7y ago

I don't think that functionality is too common among Electron apps? You can't increase the size in Bitwarden, for example. I'm surprised you found the options in System → Displays too blurry. How long ago was this? Modern macs have such high screen resolutions that the slightly uneven scaling shouldn't be a problem. Indeed, on many new Macs the default resolution is not evenly divisible by the screen resolution. On your non-retina Mac, you could use QuickRes to force "retina" resolutions.

hollerith 7y ago
You ask how long ago I experimented with the retina iMac. 2 months ago. non-native resolutions didnt look horrible, just not as good as native -- and even at native res, the text on Mac is not as nice / sharp as the text on Windows. and Im not the only comment writer on this site who prefers Windows text rendering even on retina displays.

__d 7y ago

I like http://displaymenu.milchimgemuesefach.de/index.html http://displaymenu.milchimgemuesefach.de/index.html as a means of getting a full range of specific XxY resolutions for macOS (rather than the xs, s, m, l, xl approach in System Preferences).