On Friday 12 January 2007 05:32, Gervais Mulongoy scribbled in crayon on the back of a kid's menu: > 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.
That sounds like a much better solution than the "monoculture" approach. In my experience, it is the monoculture itself that causes the problems Jon is describing - the original developers have the luxury of building for a single screen size and color depth, and make all sorts of assumptions about that which cause huge problems later on when a more diverse population of screens arises. > 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
