I made a few small tweaks to x2y this week. Haven’t had time to work on any major new features lately, but there is always room for small improvements.
I realized that somehow one of the ratio separators (the colons between the numbers) was out of alignment on the iPad. Actually, the separator was in the right place, but the two number fields it separated weren’t. One of those tiny little details that was extremely embarrassing to me. You stare at a screen for weeks, trying to make every detail perfect, and then you go ahead and ship the thing and it’s flawed anyway.
I also limited the digits in each of the ratio fields to 7. Previously, you could just keep adding digits forever, and the numbers would just run off the screen. Only about 7 were ever showing, so I figured I should just set a maximum number. (Sorry to those of you who wanted to deal with images of 10 million pixels wide or more.)
Finally, I added common ratios to the list, including the old photographic 5 x 7, the latest MacBook Airs (13 and 11 inch, which have different aspect ratios), and the iMac. (Both the 21 and 27 inch iMacs sport 16:10 ratios, so I only needed one.) If you have suggestions for more common aspects that I’ve overlooked, let me know.
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