The new web DPI – bye bye pixels!


15 or so years ago the web was a much simpler place.  A front end user’s browser sent requests to the server,  the server responded with some data which was presented on the screen.  Easy!   Then AJAX appeared which enabled people to do some more fancy stuff using asynchronous actions.    Now we are approaching HTML5 and CSS3 and with the new iPhone 4, the web is getting some more DPI lovin’.   It’s all about ‘Retina Display’ that’s used in Apple’s new gadget.   So, what is it?

Thanks to Retina display, everything you see and do on the iPhone 4 looks amazing.  Text in books, web pages and email are crisp at any size.  Images in movies and photos are stunning at almost any angle. Because the Retina display’s pixel density is so high, your eye is unable to distinguish individual pixels.

retina-vs-regular
The new display technology packs four times as many pixels into the same physical area on the display, resulting in a display that makes everything crystal clear.So what does it mean for our end-user?  Let’s have a look >>>

The web’s going to start looking a whole lot prettier….

Posted by Bart

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4 Responses to “The new web DPI – bye bye pixels!”

  1. RKO Mariusz says:

    To be honest enabling antialiasing in OpenGL ES specification would have done exactly the same thing in a less resource-consuming and more backward compatible way. :P

  2. Rich says:

    Come on Bart! You’re not going to let Mariusz get away with that are you??

  3. zhsky_aya says:

    I want to quote your post in my blog. It can?
    And you et an account on Twitter?

  4. Kris says:

    zhyky_aya of course feel free to quote this post. But please include a link to the source:)

    Our official Twitter account is: http://twitter.com/rkodigital

    Enjoy!

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