Yeah, that's how I like them. Like pages in a book. or a letter. possibly strewn over my desktop in piles.
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How do websites appear on 27" iMac?
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Yeah, that's how I like them. Like pages in a book. or a letter. possibly strewn over my desktop in piles.
That's how I like it! 200% alright. Do you resize the window by yourself using the mouse sometimes? Thanks!
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And does it looks like AppleMythos screenshot?
No, I run every app that goes full screen in that mode. The only ones that I use that either do not go full screen, or do so poorly are the settings, reminders, and facetime apps. I also auto-hide the menu bar, giving that much more space for content. Every site I visit scales to the zoomed in retina resolution remarkably well, though I have been to a few sites that still do not look very good with this set up.
So it's only some minor details and don't even reflect the entire iMac. So no reason to ditch the interest of buying 5K iMac because of it.
Yellow tint, image retention, ghosting is another story!
Pretty concerning.
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Oh I see.
Yellow tint, image retention, ghosting is another story!
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Oh I see.
You'd think that the 5k imac would be ideal for browsing image archives, but few museums and publications support it.
For instance, I can read two pages of the new yorker archive (the actual images of the magazine, not the html side by side, without zooming in. and it isn't blurry at all. It's just that
a) I have to set my imac to the teeny tiny native resolution, with out pixel doubling
b) and it takes the newyorker an appreciable length of time to actually render the image.
The issue that this thread touches on is UI related more than anything else. Like some has pointed out, most websites still use the traditional vertical column layout methodology, and for obvious reasons the designer needs to put a hard limit as to how wide the page should scale. When the page is being rendered full screen in an ultra wide, or in the case of an iMac an ultra high resolution display, if no width limit is in place, what you will get is a comically wide main column, where even long paragraphs are only 2 or 3 lines long, and inline images are only flushed on one side leaving space on the other.
I honestly don't know what the OP wants to achieve by doing this. Some of the suggestions in this thread like scaling content 200% is literally just filling spaces while losing content height at the same time. You are essentially seeing less with each scroll. There are though some pinterest-like websites that probably take advantage of full screen browsing since contents are rendered as title-cards-like cells that can tile horizontally. Another meaningful concern is HiDPI rendering of very large images such as the newspaper archive noted above. In the mean time, since low(er) resolution screen is still the norm, so contents are still optimized for this norm, we as users of 5K screen are probably better served by doing some extra window management ourselves.
I honestly don't know what the OP wants to achieve by doing this. Some of the suggestions in this thread like scaling content 200% is literally just filling spaces while losing content height at the same time. You are essentially seeing less with each scroll. There are though some pinterest-like websites that probably take advantage of full screen browsing since contents are rendered as title-cards-like cells that can tile horizontally. Another meaningful concern is HiDPI rendering of very large images such as the newspaper archive noted above. In the mean time, since low(er) resolution screen is still the norm, so contents are still optimized for this norm, we as users of 5K screen are probably better served by doing some extra window management ourselves.
UI is important. That's why. Ask Windows 8 users when it was released. Do you think websites will eventually adapt to bigger screen?
Higher resolution to retina pitch may eventually be the norm, however, vertical layout is actually staying stronger due to mobile phones. Though we are already seeing major websites selectively display different versions fir desktop and mobile, it still doesn't change the fact that a vertical page is more comprehensive since the dawn of written history. Desktop monitors became as wide as they are had more to do with desk ergonomics, and probably also due to cinema. I still remember using 5:4 19" monitors at 1280x1024 and how practical that ratio was.
I think desktop monitors will likely stay 16:9, for economy of scale sice the same panels can serve multimedia purposes. What will evolve is how OS, web standards, developers, and users findout ways to utilize a wide screen into multiple vertical stripes in the UI.
My iMac 5K 2017? Having used Eizo's at work I fully expected the iMac's screen to be inferior, but it turned out to be much better than expected. Uniformity, backlight bleeding are present but only under extreme grey scale test. Have not noticed retention and ghosting at all, but probably has something to do with how fast I set the screen to go to sleep (10 min).
