On 29.11.2005 00:57, Christian Montoya wrote: > On 11/28/05, Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Quoted from Christian Montoya: >> >>>but considering that few users ever resize their text (as in nobody), >>>most visitors would never even notice the difference. >> >>I agree with you when regular crt displays are used, but things will >>change. People buy tft screens, with native 1280x1024 resolutions. >>Running in a lower resolution gives a distorted image so a lot will >>keep it at 1280. > > > I'm curious about this... I figured most users would decrease their > resolution rather than increase their text size... is there any more > input on this? > The term resolution is a bit unlucky, since it has two different meanings.
1) logical resolution (on windows machines DPI, fictive pixel size) 2) physical resolution ( PPI, 1280 x 1024) On CRT monitors the pixel size can vary, depending on the physical resolution. As higher the resolution, as smaller the pixels are. Typical MS Windows users increase the physical resolution of their CRT monitor as far as possible (17" 1280 x 1024 is normal for them) This results in a small pixel size. In order to compensate it, they must increase their logical resolution to about 110 or more DPI. This results in different font sizes on Mozilla/Opera and MSIE, when the developer uses pixel for font-sizing, because MSIE is working intern in points and not in pixels, as the others do. That means a 10px font-size will displayed as 12px font-size in MSIE. A TFT monitor has a fixed pixel size. Since there are (very) small displays on laptops (15"-16") with a very high physical resolution (i.e. 1450 x 1024), the DELL company is using 120 DPI as a standard logical resolution on their laptops, when the installed OS is XP. Or they are using a feature of MSIE 6 [1] which often results in ugly graphics. We have had a discussion about it here on css-d already. [1] <http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/highdpi.asp> Regards, Uwe Kaiser ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
