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I mean, use it responsibly. Of course people won't, it's the internet, but a skilled designer may use it to highlight a word or an accent to draw your eye. It c
by telecuda 1mo ago
I mean, use it responsibly. Of course people won't, it's the internet, but a skilled designer may use it to highlight a word or an accent to draw your eye. It can be tricky in dense interfaces to draw focus to something (little tooltips or big buttons aren't the best answers). This is just another tool in the toolbox.
- dawnerd 1mo agoIt’s bad because it dims the entire display. You’re assuming your app is more important than whatever else might be displayed. It can also take a bit for the os to go back to the sdr state. I’ve had a few cases where safari gets stuck in hdr mode and won’t revert u til I force closed.
- theturtletalks 1mo agoI saw a restaurant on Uber Eats with a HDR enhanced image. The whole screen felt dim but I thought it was just me. How can it dim the whole screen?
- masklinn 1mo agoI’d assume it’s the display manager dimming sdr content to have sufficient brightness range for hdr content.
- embedding-shape 1mo ago> It’s bad because it dims the entire display. You’re assuming your app is more important than whatever else might be displayed. What are you talking about? I have a HDR display, in Chrome on Arch the literal only change in the submission's demo is the brightness of that particular element, doesn't change anything else on the screen, sounds like you have a broken HDR implementation.
- dgellow 1mo agoI think they meant that by making an element brighter than the rest you basically change the contrast and the rest will feel dimmer
- masklinn 1mo agoOn mac the OS remaps the brightness range when HDR content appears. The rest of the content literally and materially dims.
- embedding-shape 1mo agoLol, so one HDR element on a website changes the entire desktop environment to be dimmer? :P Fun implementation.
- dawnerd 1mo agoIf your setup runs everything in forced hdr you won’t notice. OSes like MacOS will map sdr making everything look dim that’s not hdr.
- Grombobulous 1mo agoDimming the entire display is not how HDR works especially on OLED phone displays. If you are not outside in bright sunlight it’s almost certain that your screen is not at its highest brightness in the first place. All HDR is doing is adding more range between the darkest element and the brightest element. I.e., if you go to this webpage and set your screen brightness to maximum, the HDR effect visibly goes away because you’re already telling your screen to maximize brightness everywhere. Put the screen brightness at 50% and the HDR effect is visible: the bright parts are brighter.
- dawnerd 1mo agoJust tested it, everything but the bright dimmed. That’s very annoying. On an iPhone 14 Pro…
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- tjoff 1mo agoWe haven't had dense interfaces for decades at this point. Still, even with the best intent what you suggest is still annoying. Okay, you got my attention, i now know what you wanted me to know. Are you going to nag me for all eternity?
- telecuda 1mo ago> We haven't had dense interfaces for decades at this point GovTech is still full of them. But B2B/B2C, you're right. The nagging will continue until morale improves.