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Re:The New Retina Display MacBook Pro: A downgrade from my c... by uzyn on Monday June 11, 2012 @10:16PM (#4098338)
Apple is forcing app and web designers to make 2 versions of a desktop app or website (discounting mobile and tablet versions).

One for normal resolution, the other for Retinal displays, with @2x images and ability to reduce icon sizes on toolbars, etc for more real estate.

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Re:The New Retina Display MacBook Pro: A downgrade from my c... by freehunter on Monday June 11, 2012 @10:25PM (#4098371)
Seems like a properly coded website should be able to handle a very wide variety of screen resolutions. Seems silly to have a desktop site serve different templates based on something as wildly varying as a screen resolution.
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Re:The New Retina Display MacBook Pro: A downgrade from my c... by wmf on Monday June 11, 2012 @10:47PM (#4098432)
One for normal resolution, the other for Retinal displays, with @2x images

If you're not a perfectionist you could just design the retina version first and use some scripts to generate the non-retina assets.

ability to reduce icon sizes on toolbars, etc for more real estate.

Honestly, I think this is the user's problem. They can run in scaled mode if they want moar.

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