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Web Developers Brace For the MacBook Pro’s Retina Display

The Web is about to get uglier – that is, if you’re eager enough to plunk down $2,200 for the new MacBook Pro with its ultra high-resolution “retina” display. The new laptop, which Apple unveiled last week, already has Web designers and developers trying to figure out how they’re going to create sites and Web apps that look good on the new machine without leaving the rest of the Web’s population behind.

Graphics and Typography Need to Change

At the heart of the issue are graphics. The backgrounds, buttons, banners and gradients peppered across the Web were created with a certain maximum resolution in mind. As hardware evolves, so too must the Web itself.

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