Retina.js: Retina graphics for your website
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Retina.js: Retina graphics for your website
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Re: Retina.js: Retina graphics for your website
#2Can we please stop using the silly Apple marketing gimmick "retina display" yet?
It's a high-DPI display. Lots of devices have it. Lets not attempt to pretend there's anything Apple-specific about that.
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#3Wouldn't that mean that the device will first try to download all of the low res images and when the script finished loading and is running, the device would then start to load all of the high res images. How's the user experience with all of those additional requests and traffic? (especially via GSM/CDMA)
Re: Retina.js: Retina graphics for your website
#4Can we please stop using the silly Apple marketing gimmick "retina display" yet? It's a high-DPI display. Lots of devices have it. Lets not attempt to pretend there's anything Apple-specific about that.
As soon as we stop saying Jeep, Walkman, Zipper, Kleenex, Laundromat, Xerox and all the other proprietary eponyms
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#5Wouldn't that mean that the device will first try to download all of the low res images and when the script finished loading and is running, the device would then start to load all of the high res images. How's the user experience with all of those additional requests and traffic? (especially via GSM/CDMA)
The user experience when viewing webpages is improved by actually showing a lower-resolution image while the crisp high-resolution image is being downloaded (however slowly), similar to progressive JPEGs.
Depending on the data contract, the user experience when viewing their mobile phone bills might be affected negatively though.
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#6Wouldn't that mean that the device will first try to download all of the low res images and when the script finished loading and is running, the device would then start to load all of the high res images. How's the user experience with all of those additional requests and traffic? (especially via GSM/CDMA)
Indeed it would. Certainly less than ideal, but this provides an avenue to easily implement higher DPI graphics. Right now, it seems like the easiest method to get a site upgraded without having to make a ton of changes.
Ideally, we'd have something that would deliver only the correct image to the correct device, the first time. I haven't seen a clean method for achieving that yet.
Re: Retina.js: Retina graphics for your website
#7Can we please stop using the silly Apple marketing gimmick "retina display" yet? It's a high-DPI display. Lots of devices have it. Lets not attempt to pretend there's anything Apple-specific about that.
Who's else is making high-DPI displays? I have really seen companies running with this. It would be nice to see Samsung, for example, start promoting 300 dpi screens so they go mass market.
Re: Retina.js: Retina graphics for your website
#8Can we please stop using the silly Apple marketing gimmick "retina display" yet? It's a high-DPI display. Lots of devices have it. Lets not attempt to pretend there's anything Apple-specific about that.
Who's else is making high-DPI displays? I have really seen companies running with this. It would be nice to see Samsung, for example, start promoting 300 dpi screens so they go mass market.
Samsung builds the Galaxy Nexus, which has a 316 ppi display.
Now, we still have a way to go before high ppi displays are ubiquitous, but there you have one example at least :)
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#9Wouldn't that mean that the device will first try to download all of the low res images and when the script finished loading and is running, the device would then start to load all of the high res images. How's the user experience with all of those additional requests and traffic? (especially via GSM/CDMA)
This is the same approach used by Apple. If you go on apple.com and you run:
AC.Retina._devicePixelRatio = 2
new AC.Retina
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#10Can we please stop using the silly Apple marketing gimmick "retina display" yet? It's a high-DPI display. Lots of devices have it. Lets not attempt to pretend there's anything Apple-specific about that.
As soon as we stop saying Jeep, Walkman, Zipper, Kleenex, Laundromat, Xerox and all the other proprietary eponyms
... and Google.
If people really hated Apple marketing, they probably should be ecstatic at the idea of one of their trademarks becoming genericized.