Re:Re-Designing the classic email client
by manmal on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @11:22AM
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Looks really bad on my retina Macbook pro, all pixelated. If he's to do that JPG stuff, he ought to include x2 images :)
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The retina Macbook is going to be in a small minority for a while yet- don't expect people to be leaping out of their seats to accomodate you!
Catering to these users now will preserve the design for the next round of display technology. We all know the future belongs to these types of displays.
Sure, in a perfect world when you have no other pressing issues to attend to. If you do, making @2x versions of every image on your site is going to slide down the scale of necessity.
Have you looked at the Windows 8 tablet resolutions yet? > 1080 will be the new defacto standard.
Re:Re-Designing the classic email client
by darkstalker on Wednesday July 11, 2012 @09:36AM
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If the apps could use the real pixels instead of a "retina 2x" mode, there wouldnt be any problems. Those things are apple-specific implementation details (badly designed imho).
Re:Re-Designing the classic email client
by lazerwalker on Wednesday July 11, 2012 @10:08AM
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Apps can use 'the real pixels'. The lastest builds of Final Cut Pro X and iMovie can show full 1080p video at native resolution in their tiny 3-inch preview windows, and most games will let you set the resolution to the native 2880x1800 .
That wouldn't actually improve this situation, though. Showing this image at native resolution would make the text not be pixellated, sure, but it would also be near-unreadable at 1/4th the size.