Thomas Reed4d ago
I made this a few years ago, to compare the size of the entire screen on an original 128k Mac with the size of the Safari icon on modern macOS. Enjoy!
Show threadR.L. Dane    🍵 4d ago

@thomasareed

Whoa, when did they switch to 1024x1024 icons?

For years and years, I had a Palm OS screenshot inside of a Mac SE screenshot inside of a Windows 95 screenshot, just to see the progress.

Show threadEvert Pot4d ago
@rl_dane @thomasareed I assumed they were vector . Surprising!
Show threadGlenn Seto
@evert @rl_dane @thomasareed Yeah, same. They might still include bitmap exports of varying sizes for an icon set, but I'd assume the core is all vectors these days.
May 11 at 9:24amTusky
Show threadR.L. Dane    🍵 4d ago

@glennseto @evert @thomasareed

Probably vector in the original design, but everything was still bitmap-slinging last I checked.

The only OS that used true, pure vectors for everything was IRIX, AFAIK.

Show threadmathew4d ago

@glennseto @evert @rl_dane @thomasareed Mac OS X initially used PDF for a lot of icons, because its imaging layer came from NeXTSTEP, which was based on PDF. (Which in turn was because Steve didn't want to pay royalties to Adobe for Display PostScript.)

For example, /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources used to have the PDFs for the dock's icons, like `poof.pdf` for the cloud animation when you dragged something out of the dock. There are still quite a few PDFs for UI elements under /System, but the number has been going down as successive redesigns have taken place.

Show threadR.L. Dane    🍵 4d ago

@mathew @glennseto @evert @thomasareed

I had no idea! Well, I only used OSX from 10.5-13, so I probably missed some important bits.