Re:A Pixel Is Not a Little Square (1995) [pdf]
by citrin_ru on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @09:26AM
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> I can't imagine a world where we chose to waste massive amounts of resolution in the normal case just so we don't need to sample as intelligently as we do today.
It is already happening, see e. g. [1]-[3]. And the more common will be HiDPI displays - the worse would be support for low-res (say 96 DPI) displays. It is not uncommon to encounter an opinion that tricks used for high quality rendering on no-HiDPI displays are legacy and cruft, but more common is just to tread rendering issues which not visible on HiDPI as low priority.
It is the same old mantra - programmer's time is expensive, hardware is cheap, let's not spend time on creating efficient software and focus on making development fast and easy.
It is already happening, see e. g. [1]-[3]. And the more common will be HiDPI displays - the worse would be support for low-res (say 96 DPI) displays. It is not uncommon to encounter an opinion that tricks used for high quality rendering on no-HiDPI displays are legacy and cruft, but more common is just to tread rendering issues which not visible on HiDPI as low priority.
It is the same old mantra - programmer's time is expensive, hardware is cheap, let's not spend time on creating efficient software and focus on making development fast and easy.
[1] https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/1892 [2] https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/2394 [3] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/-/issues/463