On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 08:32 -0500, Gervais Mulongoy wrote: > another solution to that could be the use of scalable graphics the way > its done with svg or the way it is done in enlightenment.
Exactly, this is one great solution and the way Apple and Microsoft are moving (also, why I am developer on Inkscape www.inkscape.org). Anyway, one platform for mobile devices is great! Solving the GUI issue is just a matter of theming mostly...that is simple! Consolidate or die is the new slogan in 2007 :) Jon > On 1/12/07, Tomasz Zielinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2007/1/12, Jon Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > the good news is that it can be generic enough to handle > > these different devices... > > The bad news is they all have different screen resolutions, > so > application for different screen size will loose 95% of > functionality, > regardless of applied workaround. > > Remember J2ME "standard". It's specification was way too wide > so it > accepted and tried to unify GUI for phones with ( i.e.) 72x96 > pixel and > 352x416 screens. We know how it ended - if you are mobile java > games > developer, you have to fork your project to gazillion > resolution/phone_vendor/phone_model combinations and support > every one > individually (and almost every mobile phone model has own set > of J2ME > implementation glitches). > > Windows CE and PocketPC also suffers - all non-standard > resolution > and/or screen orientation makes users cry. > > In fact only PalmOS had reasonable resolution - they simply > quadrupled > screen size from 160x160 to 320x320, which makes backward > compatibility a piece of cake. > > I wish OpenMoko will grow in monocultural hardware > environment, to > avoid mentioned problems too early... > > -- > Tomek Z. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > OpenMoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > _______________________________________________ > OpenMoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
