Hi Daniel. First, I think that switching to another resolution is not a good option, since this is not really necessary from software point of view and will not be understood by the user. I'm recalling old-style DOS graphical applications which were able to work using only specific resolution. So this option is like back to 80's ;)
Second, there are two options here: 1. To scale up content and panels. Bigger resolution - > Bigger panels and widgets -> Bigger text size, bigger images, etc. You can find this approach implemented here: http://www.mscui.net/PatientJourneyDemonstrator/. Please see Primary Care demonstrator. This is Microsoft attempt to show how Silverlight (code name WPF everywhere) can be adopted for the need of medical employees. Try to resize window, looks impressive. 2. To show more content. Bigger resolution -> Bigger panels and widgets- > Font size persists the same however more content becomes available. More list items, more images, more other content available. Unfortunately I can't provide you a live example here. However the idea is simple. Try to open outlook and make the window high lower - you will see that it displays not 20 but 10 emails for example. In general it should be known why users need higher resolution and bigger monitors. Do the need to view content bigger or to view more content? Taking into account that most of target audience use 1024x768 even if display supports a higher resolution, probably option 1 is the right choice. Thankfully, WPF provides enough instrumentation to implement both strategies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=48306 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
