On 11/11/06, Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2006/11/11 22:17 (GMT-0500) Christian Montoya apparently typed:
> Some users (like me) considered that 20 pixel font default a bug
> (because the scaling is sooo bad)
Please explain what you mean by bad scaling.
What I meant was that you can scale all of the native windows text
(menus, title bars, icons) to accommodate the laptop's ideal settings
(120 dpi, 1680x1050 pixels), but you can't scale the actual window
text of all apps. It's a big problem because at this "ideal" setting,
all the text is actually too small to comfortably read. So Internet
Explorer scales text, and Opera does too, as well as some Windows
apps, but Firefox doesn't, and neither do Java apps (which means jEdit
is a lot harder to use).
A lot of it has to do with the fact that while these computers come
with support for 120 dpi, they don't come with adequate support for
font-scaling to match 120 dpi at the maximum, factory-shipped display
setting. In the end, the 120 dpi, 1680x1050 screen is pretty, but also
pretty useless.
> and went about patching it; though
> it's still a little buggy.
What is "it", and how to you "patch" it?
Well, first step was to go down to 1280x800 pixels, and then install a
Dell patch to turn the poor image-scaling in IE off (which was
terribly pixelated), and then I know there are some more steps that
can be taken to stop font-scaling in IE and Opera altogether, but I
just decrease the zoom in them slightly and they look fine.
> Let's just say font-sizes are problematic on these 120 dpi screens;
It isn't about 120 DPI. It's about DPIs that vary more than a little
from whatever the page designer uses or assumes. Average DPIs have on
their way up for quite some time, and won't be stopping any time soon.
True, but considering how bad Windows XP handles 120 dpi, I'm not
about to put all the blame on the page designer.
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Christian Montoya
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