Bill McGonigle <b...@bfccomputing.com> writes: > > On 03/31/2010 07:22 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: > > Something which I've long thought should be done but which no > > mainstream OS GUI I've seen does well is increasing screen resolution > > to increase quality of rendering while keeping the human information > > density per inch around the same [...] > It was more than 5 years ago that IBM was demo'ing 200dpi LCD screens. > But it's not surprising to me that they haven't moved to production with > them because the market still has to be really small. Speaking of > small, IIRC some of the higher quality handheld devices are up to > 170-ish dpi.
My FreeRunner runs at ~280 DPI; I think Nokia's N800, N810, and N900 are all somewhat below that, but are still all above 200 DPI. The only problems that I've had with the ~280-DPI resolution on the FreeRunner are with web pages (px are too small in absolute terms, pt are too big for the small screen) and with pre-rendered tiles from OpenStreetMap; the former is handled by putting constraints on the permissiable font-sizes, and I've been able to handle the latter by patching TangoGPS to process the tiles into having a lower detail-density. -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))." _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
