You can be every bit as dense in a web based application... you can make it look the same pixel perfect if you want to go that far.
I've never been a fan over overly dense applications, unless they are purpose built tools. There's a big difference between PhotoShop and Grubhub. Likewise there should be differences depending on display size and UX... If you're going to have users with finger/touch input, then you don't want things too close.. if it's mostly Desktop/Laptop, you can go much more dense with less issues.
Do keep accessibility in mind, some of us zoom up a couple steps on many sites.
> There's a big difference between PhotoShop and Grubhub.
Others in this thread have already pointed out the massive difference in information density of a printed menu over most menus rendered on a mobile device.
> I've never been a fan over overly dense applications, unless they are purpose built tools.
Thing is it doesn't look super-dense. It's just space efficient let's say. Our UI components, based on Win32, makes it quite easy to have relatively dense UIs that's don't look cluttered or busy.
Like I said I'm sure you can do it using HTML and CSS, it just seems not to be done often.
That said it's absolutely a specialized application. At least 99% of our windows/views would make zero sense on a mobile or tablet.
> Do keep accessibility in mind, some of us zoom up a couple steps on many sites.
Yeah we had to manually implement font scaling, before Microsoft added it to Windows. Certainly something we will support going to the web.
I've never been a fan over overly dense applications, unless they are purpose built tools. There's a big difference between PhotoShop and Grubhub. Likewise there should be differences depending on display size and UX... If you're going to have users with finger/touch input, then you don't want things too close.. if it's mostly Desktop/Laptop, you can go much more dense with less issues.
Do keep accessibility in mind, some of us zoom up a couple steps on many sites.