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This article is ridiculous. The author essentially suggests that we pander to his demographic (see footnote 1, "Windows-using web designers, if such people stil

This article is ridiculous. The author essentially suggests that we pander to his demographic (see footnote 1, "Windows-using web designers, if such people still exist") for a non-existent reason, namely, that "you may not realize quite how bad it looks when any graphical assets show at 1X.". This is the type of irresponsible FUD that I would not expect to find here. Show me a website that looks worse on a Retina display, and I'll show you a crappy rendering system.

barumrho 14y ago
But retina display is the future. (At least I hope so.)
- jonathanyc 14y ago
  It may be, but no website I've looked at on the iPad 2 looks better or worse than it already looks like on a non-retina desktop/laptop. EDIT: Gah, I meant the iPad 3. Slip of the finger or slip of the mind, make of it what you will.
  - ajross 14y ago
    Clearly this is the truth. Except (and I'm being quite serious here) to those who just dropped a big chunk of self image into their new toy. There's a huge psychological investment to a product like this. It's better! And anything that prevents it from being/seeming/acting better is an abomination. Marco Arment is deeply, personally offended that site designers aren't improving their work so that it looks better on his personal screen, because that situation reduces the value of the thing he so admires.
  - sosuke 14y ago
    The iPad 2 does not have a retina display.
  - LaSombra 14y ago
    Indeed. The iPad 3 is here for what? 6 months now? And still websites that use lots of images don't look nice but again, so what? I think the iPad 3 numbers and now retina MBP are so small that the extra work and bandwidth are not worth the trouble. Not now and not in the next couple of years IMHO. Who will drive this change? Windows computers I think since there numbers are way more than Mac computers, even if Apple tells you otherwise. Just my 2¢.

barumrho 14y ago

But retina display is the future. (At least I hope so.)

jonathanyc 14y ago
It may be, but no website I've looked at on the iPad 2 looks better or worse than it already looks like on a non-retina desktop/laptop. EDIT: Gah, I meant the iPad 3. Slip of the finger or slip of the mind, make of it what you will.
- ajross 14y ago
  Clearly this is the truth. Except (and I'm being quite serious here) to those who just dropped a big chunk of self image into their new toy. There's a huge psychological investment to a product like this. It's better! And anything that prevents it from being/seeming/acting better is an abomination. Marco Arment is deeply, personally offended that site designers aren't improving their work so that it looks better on his personal screen, because that situation reduces the value of the thing he so admires.
- sosuke 14y ago
  The iPad 2 does not have a retina display.
- LaSombra 14y ago
  Indeed. The iPad 3 is here for what? 6 months now? And still websites that use lots of images don't look nice but again, so what? I think the iPad 3 numbers and now retina MBP are so small that the extra work and bandwidth are not worth the trouble. Not now and not in the next couple of years IMHO. Who will drive this change? Windows computers I think since there numbers are way more than Mac computers, even if Apple tells you otherwise. Just my 2¢.