Could someone from Palm Computing give us some hints? Is it possible
to turn off those two lines of white border?
If the answer is an unfortunately no, is it possible to keep this as
an option for future devices? An option to have the border to be white
or black.
To be frank, if I am not a developer and have to test programs on a
real color device, I will not buy the IIIc for the extra weight and
almost unreadable display in daylight. The white border itself is
a good enough reason to return the unit...
Thanks
horace
----- Original Message -----
From: Scott L. Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > From: Steve Sabram [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > That a bad h/w design call. Only a significant parts cost
> > savings can justify this in my experience.
>
> I don't that that's a totally fair criticism, since we know very little
> about the decisions and trade-offs the designers had to make. Obviously
> this was a difficult device to design, considering that they certainly
would
> have wanted to shoehorn it into the standard Palm III casing but couldn't.
>
> > Hell, hardwiring to black would be more aesthetic than
> > hardwiring to white since the case is already that color.
>
> No, quite the opposite. The default color scheme is dark text on a white
> background. All known design guidelines call for drawing text flush with
> the left and right sides of the screen without leaving any border. That
has
> always worked fine because mono screens have a light background with the
> same color of border extending around it. But on the IIIc, dark text
would
> abut the dark border and look terrible. (The 'N' at the start of this
> paragraph would look like a slanted 'V', for example.) So if it's given
> that they already decided to hard-wire the border color for whatever
reason,
> it makes the most sense to hard-wire it to be the same as the default
> background color that 99.44% of end users will never change.
>
> -slj-
>
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