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Ok, so the truth is raising the hackles of HN. Cool. Examine why you're upset, is he wrong or is it because he's right but he's talking about the other team/com

Ok, so the truth is raising the hackles of HN. Cool. Examine why you're upset, is he wrong or is it because he's right but he's talking about the other team/company that you don't like? He is right to say that web designers need to start designing for high-dpi displays because high-dpi is going to be or already is the norm. Look at phones, they have what 150-200+ dpi? Tablets? Yep, high-dpi there too. Windows? Well, actually yes. Windows 8 was designed to support high-dpi as well. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/03/21/scaling-to-different-screens.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/03/21/scaling-to-dif... Perhaps the article would be better worded to say that web designers should buy Retna MBP because high-dpi is the future and Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android are all going to have high-dpi screens inside of a year or two, so it's going to take off pretty fast, and the Retna MBP is the best/only mainstream high-dpi workstation you can buy right now. Of course, that would be rational and nuanced and those things don't get you clicks, links, or pageviews because after all this is the internet.

majormajor 14y ago
Windows has been scaling to various DPIs for ages (sometimes to undesired out-of-the-box resulsts, such when, a few years ago, I plugged in an XP desktop to an HDTV over HDMI and it tried to make the fonts display at the same physical size as on a monitor despite me sitting much further away). It's something it (and Linux, and Android) has ahead on the curve of compared to Apple—from an engineer's perspective, just going with doubling is a rather inelegant solution. XP wasn't very good at it when it came to third-party apps, but on Vista or 7 (I forget which I was on back then now) once I got the DPI slider in the right place for that TV, it provided a quite enjoyable experience, even on older or non-standard apps.

majormajor 14y ago

Windows has been scaling to various DPIs for ages (sometimes to undesired out-of-the-box resulsts, such when, a few years ago, I plugged in an XP desktop to an HDTV over HDMI and it tried to make the fonts display at the same physical size as on a monitor despite me sitting much further away). It's something it (and Linux, and Android) has ahead on the curve of compared to Apple—from an engineer's perspective, just going with doubling is a rather inelegant solution. XP wasn't very good at it when it came to third-party apps, but on Vista or 7 (I forget which I was on back then now) once I got the DPI slider in the right place for that TV, it provided a quite enjoyable experience, even on older or non-standard apps.