On 06/08/31 10:13 (GMT-0500) Collin Davis apparently typed: >> The only significant viewport limitation I see isn't intrinsic.
> Viewport limitation isn't intrinsic to a display/viewport? We must > have different definitions of intrinsic or something. Maybe. Magazine pages, billboards and posters have fixed width and height dimensions, and fixed colors. Everything has to fit within those constraints. If something turns out wrong, you can't just click a button to get a fresh one to start over with. A browser viewport doesn't have a fixed (intrinsic) size, and it is subject to instant blanking to start over. It's limitation doesn't begin until an author makes an assumption about its size. There is no indefinite scroll to the bottom and reach the end with the traditional paradigms, so typical web content can all fit, no matter how much there is that needs to fit. If the user doesn't much care for the width of that content, he's free to change it in most cases. I just don't see any intrinsic limitations in a viewport. >> If you don't measure your design >> objects in px, then viewport size needn't matter much, if at all. > Until all graphics/video/multimedia are completely vector and > scalable along with textual content, size does matter. > A 200px by 100px image at 100% viewport width and height (assume > normal 800x600/1024x768/etc) is completely unusable. So you say. I see no such black/white distinction. I find that image file sizes can be chosen that permit a reasonably wide range of usability as displayed size varies. Certainly an image stretched to the upper limit is likely to be less than ideal, but if at its intrinsic size it's too small to see, that difference is moot. Better that everything else is matched up to user requirements, and let image quality suffer a little if that is required to balance download times for slow connect users with quality rendering to those who have troubled themselves to maximize quality on their personal computers. -- "Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up." Galatians 6:9 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
