-----Original Message----- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Felix Miata
>Think that if you want, but because the pixel density is higher on the smaller, those with adequate vision may in fact find the smaller to be the better when both render a particular object at the same _physical_ size. The prime example is text, where jaggies are a common reader objection to screen font quality. -- OK, "better" was a bad choice of words. Suffice it to say my point is that a 1920x1200 monitor will only be able to show 1920x1200 pixels of data. It doesn't matter if it's a 24" screen or a 19" screen. 1920x1200 is 1920x1200. What the end user feels is a "good" size to view their fonts doesn't mean anything to the discussion as I understood the question. -- >Your 24" 1920x1200 is about 94.3 DPI, while the 22" 1920x1200 is 102.9, roughly "9%" higher nominally. On yours a true 12pt character box would be about 15.72px tall by about 7.86px wide, for a total available pixel count for each character of 123.56. On the smaller display 12pt would be about 17.15px tall by about 8.575px wide, for a total available pixel count of 147.06, or 19% more. That 19% can easily translate into less jaggies and smoother curves and diagonals, and definitely does as DPI is increased further than that small 9% nominal difference between your 24" and a 22". -- The user's feelings on a particular size doesn't really matter... The question was "Is computer-screen resolution still 72 dpi?" The real answer is a monitor's resolution is not measured in DPI but PIXELS x PIXELS. And, it's really not something we can design for, either. We can provide different pages and style sheets based on the resolution in use but we have no way of knowing the physical size of a user's monitor and therefore we can't determine the user's monitor's DPI. Yes, it's something that affects the display of our pages but, to me, not something worth worrying about. -- >DPI most definitely matters WRT to physical size. Visit any store where several laptops sit side by side on display. You should be able to find a 14" or 14.1" sitting next to a 15.4", both at 1280x800 resolution. Because the smaller screen has less area for its pixels to fit into, its DPI (~108) is higher (vs. ~98), and, all else being equal, every image on it matching the same image on the larger screen will be a smaller physical _size_. -- Again, while the physical size may be important to some it's not really the issue as I see it. We are both really talking about different subjects. You're concerned with an image's real-world size which is something we can not control. I'm only concerned with a monitor's resolution because it's the only thing I can determine and code for. 800x600 pixels will always be 800x600 pixels no matter what monitor it is displayed on. However, 800x600 pixels can be shown as different sizes depending on the physical size of the monitor and the resolution it is running. DPI is anything from 20 dpi on up depending on the physical size of the user's monitor. But, in closing, I'll ask anyone to go to Fry's, Circuit City, or wherever you buy your computer peripherals and ask them to show you all their 72 dpi monitors. You won't find any such information about any monitor on the box and I doubt you'll find any salesemen that would actually know how to determine the answer. That's because a monitor's DPI is largely irrelevant. Mike ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
