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You can be every bit as dense in a web based application... you can make it look the same pixel perfect if you want to go that far. I've never been a fan over

You can be every bit as dense in a web based application... you can make it look the same pixel perfect if you want to go that far. I've never been a fan over overly dense applications, unless they are purpose built tools. There's a big difference between PhotoShop and Grubhub. Likewise there should be differences depending on display size and UX... If you're going to have users with finger/touch input, then you don't want things too close.. if it's mostly Desktop/Laptop, you can go much more dense with less issues. Do keep accessibility in mind, some of us zoom up a couple steps on many sites.

jimbokun 2y ago
> There's a big difference between PhotoShop and Grubhub. Others in this thread have already pointed out the massive difference in information density of a printed menu over most menus rendered on a mobile device.
magicalhippo 2y ago
> I've never been a fan over overly dense applications, unless they are purpose built tools. Thing is it doesn't look super-dense. It's just space efficient let's say. Our UI components, based on Win32, makes it quite easy to have relatively dense UIs that's don't look cluttered or busy. Like I said I'm sure you can do it using HTML and CSS, it just seems not to be done often. That said it's absolutely a specialized application. At least 99% of our windows/views would make zero sense on a mobile or tablet. > Do keep accessibility in mind, some of us zoom up a couple steps on many sites. Yeah we had to manually implement font scaling, before Microsoft added it to Windows. Certainly something we will support going to the web.
Terr_ 2y ago
> You can be every bit as dense in a web based application... you can make it look the same pixel perfect if you want to go that far. That reminds me of the widgets and named-frames of: https://botoxparty.github.io/XP.css/ https://botoxparty.github.io/XP.css/
- tracker1 2y ago
  I'm thinking this might be cool to use in conjunction with cross-platform web based ui apps (tauri, electron, etc)

jimbokun 2y ago

> There's a big difference between PhotoShop and Grubhub. Others in this thread have already pointed out the massive difference in information density of a printed menu over most menus rendered on a mobile device.

magicalhippo 2y ago

> I've never been a fan over overly dense applications, unless they are purpose built tools. Thing is it doesn't look super-dense. It's just space efficient let's say. Our UI components, based on Win32, makes it quite easy to have relatively dense UIs that's don't look cluttered or busy. Like I said I'm sure you can do it using HTML and CSS, it just seems not to be done often. That said it's absolutely a specialized application. At least 99% of our windows/views would make zero sense on a mobile or tablet. > Do keep accessibility in mind, some of us zoom up a couple steps on many sites. Yeah we had to manually implement font scaling, before Microsoft added it to Windows. Certainly something we will support going to the web.

Terr_ 2y ago

> You can be every bit as dense in a web based application... you can make it look the same pixel perfect if you want to go that far. That reminds me of the widgets and named-frames of: https://botoxparty.github.io/XP.css/ https://botoxparty.github.io/XP.css/

tracker1 2y ago
I'm thinking this might be cool to use in conjunction with cross-platform web based ui apps (tauri, electron, etc)