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How does making things smaller and smaller with each resolution increase equal "evolution?" I would argue that making everything a fixed consistent size regard

How does making things smaller and smaller with each resolution increase equal "evolution?" I would argue that making everything a fixed consistent size regardless of resolution and then increasing DPI as the resolution is increased would be a better way to "evolve" things. "Zoom" should be an OS function (e.g. 125%, 150%, 200%, etc). "Resolution" should be hidden from the end user entirely. "DPI" should automatically scale with the supported resolution. That way if the user is hard of seeing they can "zoom" things but aside from that everything would look identical no matter what resolution you had (e.g. identical on 1600x900 or 1080p, or higher).

guard-of-terra 14y ago
You don't make things smaller. You make things sharper.
- UnoriginalGuy 14y ago
  Right but you were arguing against that?
  - guard-of-terra 14y ago
    Why? I argued that big resolutions are good and interfaces will soon catch up. Browsers are ready, operating systems are ready. Some legacy software might become tiny, but you can live with it by changing resolution when you need to use it.
    - UnoriginalGuy 14y ago
      I disagree, desktop Operating Systems cannot handle high resolutions at all. They just keep making things smaller and smaller instead of sharper and sharper. OS X has JUST added basic support for a sharper lower resolution mode, but even that is highly limited to their new displays. Resolution from a OS perspective needs to be scrapped and re-invented.
      - DougBTX 14y ago
        That's simply not true, OS level support has been improving for years and years. There is a chicken-before-the-egg problem with getting ISVs to support high resolution modes (ie, for third party developers to use the support the OS offers) since there isn't much incentive until their users have hardware to use the high resolution modes. Apple has started shipping high resolution screens, once others do too software support will be more likely to catch up too.
        UnoriginalGuy 14y ago
        If that was true then first party software would support it well but it doesn't. A lot Microsoft's software cannot handle 150%.
        bduerst 14y ago
        >If that was true then first party software would support it well No no no no no. Hardware adoption has comes first, followed by the optimized software functionality. Just look at SSD and TRIM.

guard-of-terra 14y ago

You don't make things smaller. You make things sharper.

UnoriginalGuy 14y ago
Right but you were arguing against that?
- guard-of-terra 14y ago
  Why? I argued that big resolutions are good and interfaces will soon catch up. Browsers are ready, operating systems are ready. Some legacy software might become tiny, but you can live with it by changing resolution when you need to use it.
  - UnoriginalGuy 14y ago
    I disagree, desktop Operating Systems cannot handle high resolutions at all. They just keep making things smaller and smaller instead of sharper and sharper. OS X has JUST added basic support for a sharper lower resolution mode, but even that is highly limited to their new displays. Resolution from a OS perspective needs to be scrapped and re-invented.
    - DougBTX 14y ago
      That's simply not true, OS level support has been improving for years and years. There is a chicken-before-the-egg problem with getting ISVs to support high resolution modes (ie, for third party developers to use the support the OS offers) since there isn't much incentive until their users have hardware to use the high resolution modes. Apple has started shipping high resolution screens, once others do too software support will be more likely to catch up too.
      - UnoriginalGuy 14y ago
        If that was true then first party software would support it well but it doesn't. A lot Microsoft's software cannot handle 150%.
        bduerst 14y ago
        >If that was true then first party software would support it well No no no no no. Hardware adoption has comes first, followed by the optimized software functionality. Just look at SSD and TRIM.