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Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator

(martin.wojtczyk.de)
631 points wojtczyk | 1 comments | 31 Aug 24 04:29 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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DavidPiper ◴[31 Aug 24 09:25 UTC] No.41407570[source]▶
Comically, I didn't even notice those wobbly numbers in the first screenshot, I was too busy noticing:

- "Unicode" button label way off center

- The 8/10/16 selector being off center in its own position

- The indicators for bits 31 and 63 are not aligned with each other

- x and + not being horizontally aligned (I believe this is an icon-font issue, seen on HN before so knew to look for it)

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countmora ◴[31 Aug 24 09:40 UTC] No.41407613[source]▶
> "Unicode" button label way off center

Its actually the center of the button, I made a video for context: https://imgur.com/a/1Y9O8dS

> The 8/10/16 selector being off center in its own position

Might be due to the image compression, it looks fine on my MB.

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1. xelamonster ◴[31 Aug 24 16:53 UTC] No.41410135[source]▶
The selector issue is very visible in your video still: you can see black pixels at the top of the selected number where it shows the selector background, but none at the bottom because it's misaligned and the selection bubble is slightly outside its box.

Edit: zooming in closer it's maybe not outside the box at all, but there's some odd aliasing artifacts or something making the space above the highlight look bigger than the space below.

Honestly I don't think it makes it any better if the Unicode text is theoretically centered; the fact that there's zero separation between the options, and such poor spacing that it's difficult to tell and feels awkward either way is still terrible design.