Will Retina devices change the way you design websites, and if so, how?
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Will Retina devices change the way you design websites, and if so, how?
Haven’t they already?
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I guess I should have elaborated further. I mean are you now by default formatting your images for these devices?
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Will Retina devices change the way you design websites, and if so, how?
The biggest impact they’ve had on me so far (and I own no retina devices)
is to make 1440px my default design viewing width (the retina Macbook). I’m
not sure why, but this strategy seems to make predicting how clients will
respond to a design easier for me.
In some cases, I find that I’m doubling image sizes and scaling them in the
browser - which makes wysiwygging in Freeway impossible and is surely not a
best-practice when it comes to streamlining page loading. I am hoping the
Lords of the Web will come to some solution for implementing selective
image delivery for these situations that is reasonable and sensible.
But not for every image… as I have yet for any client to complain about how
fuzzy or pixelled my images appear (99.99% pass-thru). Sometimes I wonder
if the images I do “double” are even necessary.
I do need to replace my laptop this next year, so perhaps that will be my
first Retina device - and perhaps that will either sell me on Retina’s
universal adoption, or to ignore it completely.
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Ernie, thanks for your post.
Does Apple even make a 17" laptop anymore?
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No, but they are plentiful on eBay, and a good value if your back holds up to lugging them around. I have one, but just got an 11" Air for my middle daughter. I have serious envy of its size and unobtrusiveness. Not sure if I could do the things I usually do on the 17 in that tiny space (recording in Logic Pro, occasional hacking with Safari and TextMate open side-by-side. I have never become comfortable with Spaces, so that’s not a good solution for me. Using a smaller screen would encourage me to refactor my code more often (so a class would always fit in one screen).
Walter
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Does Apple even make a 17" laptop anymore?
Oh my, no. They seem to be going in the other direction – which I’m sure
they have good reason for.
The 17-inchers were my favorite obviously as a graphics person… but even
for me laptops have come to represent mobility over working comfort. I’m
eyeing something less horse-powered than what I’ve been used to (as I get a
lot of time in front of my 27-inch iMac Beast). The Macbook Air is what I’m
envisioning for me next.
Eventually, we will all be using our smartphones for graphic design.
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On 13 Nov 2014, 5:17 pm, The Big Erns wrote:
Eventually, we will all be using our smartphones for graphic design.
Now that I’m over 50, I doubt that I can design that small. 
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