You know what's an even hotter mess? That devs for various software and hardware outfits never came to an agreement years ago, long before all the possible resolutions came to be, on what DPI is. On how big a pixel is. On how a screen ought to exactly render anything you can throw at it.
If there had been manufacturer-agnostic standards in place to begin with (which I think is the better if much subtler point of mjg's article) then we wouldn't have so much sheer chaos and confusion today (it would also be easier for designers to design, which right now is a sort of difficult task considering the sheer amount of cross-res testing we must do anywhere).
Google has one way, Apple another, MS yet another, so no one ever can or will design anything to an agreed-upon spec. It's frustrating, really, that the look of an app, program or web page on one size screen can't be easily scaled to another, with everyone knowing ahead of time exactly what the outcome will be, then making adjustments accordingly off of a wholly-expected result, not the current manufacturer-specific standard (in other words, this isn't just about MS, sorry to burst any bubble you're having over that).
They didn't think to scale app DPI for cross-OS compatibility? Big deal - meanwhile every software company on Earth screwed this up years ago by not agreeing in the first place on what the standards should be.
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Re: That's right
Date: 2012-07-14 06:16 am (UTC)If there had been manufacturer-agnostic standards in place to begin with (which I think is the better if much subtler point of mjg's article) then we wouldn't have so much sheer chaos and confusion today (it would also be easier for designers to design, which right now is a sort of difficult task considering the sheer amount of cross-res testing we must do anywhere).
Google has one way, Apple another, MS yet another, so no one ever can or will design anything to an agreed-upon spec. It's frustrating, really, that the look of an app, program or web page on one size screen can't be easily scaled to another, with everyone knowing ahead of time exactly what the outcome will be, then making adjustments accordingly off of a wholly-expected result, not the current manufacturer-specific standard (in other words, this isn't just about MS, sorry to burst any bubble you're having over that).
They didn't think to scale app DPI for cross-OS compatibility? Big deal - meanwhile every software company on Earth screwed this up years ago by not agreeing in the first place on what the standards should be.