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Re: GX110 looks good.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dryfoo@MIT.EDU)
Thu Apr 13 14:25:22 2000
From: dryfoo@MIT.EDU
Message-Id: <200004131825.OAA07586@thelonious.mit.edu>
To: Karl Ramm <kcr@1ts.org>
cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>, owls@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "13 Apr 2000 14:08:17 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 14:25:11 -0400
I think the functionality most people would be happy with doesn't lie in
fixing font sizes for them, but rather to emulate the Mac trick of
letting people specify their resolution mode.
Now before everyone piles on and says "can't be done", I have no idea if
it can or can't be set up for people to specify this themselves in a
reasonably easy manner. I'm just trying to get us thinking out of the
box of a technical fix before thinking about what users want/expect.
The advantage of the Mac way is that people would have to explicitly ASK
for the increased resolution, and once they did make that change, they'd
be expecting to see smaller fonts. So the challenge of increasing the
font sizes is something they'd understand they'd have to deal with as
part of the enhancement they'd chosen to make, instead of something
thrust mysteriously upon them. This change in context will greatly
affect how they'll willingly they'll deal with any font-fixing tricks.
-- Gary
} > > In general, 1600x1200 is only rarely usable on 19" monitor.
} >
} > When you make this statement, are you assuming that the font remains
} > the same size (in pixels) or that people will choose bigger fonts?
} > That is, if I could choose between X by Y and 2X by 2Y with fonts
} > twice as large, and the refresh rate for 2X by 2Y was acceptable,
} > would limited dot pitch or whatnot make 2X by 2Y would be less usable?
}
} I'm assuming 'fixed', so the font remains the same pixelsize, but it's
} overstating things to a) just worry about fonts, and b) say 'we can
} increase the font size' unless you can increase the font size *EVERYWHERE*
} (such as in netscape displaying pages that specify point sizes explicitly)
} In general, single pixel width things looks eyestrain-causingly funny, and
} I think the dot pitch on the old monitors was about .24.
}
} kcr
