Living in Pixelland
Every pixel is valuable in Pixelland. The graph below is still pixel-junk on Pixelland’s standards.
The parantheses waste 30 valuable pixels.
The vertical line costs 11 pixels.
Empty spaces also use pixels which is vital.
Font-width can be measured in pixels, too.
May 15th, 2007 at 9:16 am
Nice (to the point) post. What about those decimal places – do we really need 2?
May 22nd, 2007 at 10:53 am
When quoting stocks and other financial instruments, you do need two decimal points because that’s the financial standard. The US financial system used to quote using fractions. n/8, n/16, n/32 and n/64 depending on the financial instrument.
A couple of years ago, if I’m not mistaken, the US (which was the main user of the fractional system) finally moved to decimal representation, and the convention is that you use two decimal places to maintain (or improve on) the precision that the fractional system had.
So when quoting financial instruments, you do need the 2 decimal places. It’s a different matter if you use sparklines for a different application.
I would add a pixel or two between the hi|lo quotes, by the way. They seem just a bit too tight.