you seem to be conflating a few unrelated things here – like the point of the article and your utter distaste for Gnome3's UI
Don't forget his distaste for "designers" whom he thinks are a rather specious lot. Us designers spoiling his boringly transparent UI party? No way.
I'm sure no one wants (or should want) 12pt to render (look exactly the same) on both a smartphone and a huge wide screen. Most designers might want something much more rational (that should be attainable but still is not - not without hacking or adding special, platform-specific instructions): text that's perfectly readable on any size screen without distorting it too far from its original scale - I mean, duh.
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Re: Brilliant
Date: 2012-07-14 07:03 am (UTC)Don't forget his distaste for "designers" whom he thinks are a rather specious lot. Us designers spoiling his boringly transparent UI party? No way.
I'm sure no one wants (or should want) 12pt to render (look exactly the same) on both a smartphone and a huge wide screen. Most designers might want something much more rational (that should be attainable but still is not - not without hacking or adding special, platform-specific instructions): text that's perfectly readable on any size screen without distorting it too far from its original scale - I mean, duh.