Why does the web look TERRIBLE on my new Retina display?

The new retina display is fantastic, but browsing the web looks horrible. Can anything be done to improve the web browsing experience?

Most websites are designed to look good on low end computers, typically with a resolution of around 1024x768.
Our retina macbooks have such a high resolution display that they basically show the flaws you would not normally see on a low resolution display.Text that is rendered using the mac os system fonts should look beautiful, but low resolution pictures and non-native text will look terrible on any website or application.
There is no real fix for this issue, other than hoping the web in general starts moving to higher resoltuion content in the future. The same problem exists with the retina iPad, and in my opinion, things look even worse on the ipad since you tend to be zoomed in further while browsing the web.

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xslamx wrote:
> I'm trying to recreate a nav bar mock up in Flash that I
mocked in Photoshop.
> The background of my nav bar in Photoshop has a nice
smooth gradient going from
> black to red to black, but when I pull out a rectangle
in Flash and add a
> gradient to it, the gradient looks very choppy and
doesn't have a smooth
> transition from one color level to the next. Is it just
that Flash doesn't
> make as good of gradients as Photoshop or is there some
kind of quality setting
> that I have to bump up in Flash? Thanks.
>

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