We just found out, in shipping out an update to one of our vertical apps, that 1024x768 is still too large for some, with old square 4x3 aspect ratios and poor eyesight.
As long as human eyes are human eyes, that is never going to change either. Nor are people over 40 ever going to be able to read your fashionable 8-point grey-text-on-white-background website unless they put their face close enough to the screen to get a tan from it. And every web design expert on the planet will tell you that, and every over-caffeinated 20-something web "designer" will ignore it and do it anyway. And 95% of users will think that's just the way it has to be, and so the bandwagon rattles on and on.
The thing is, used to be, if an idiot designed a vacumn cleaner, nobody would buy it, and the idiot would starve. But in the software industry, the idiots reign, and most everybody is afraid to point out the nudity of the emperor.
Vanity of vanities; all is vanity, said the Teacher.. He probably also said, "Get the $&%*% off my lawn!" Ken Dibble www.stic-cil.org _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/E2.22.20776.41442755@cdptpa-oedge02 ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
