Tim:
> I tend to agree regarding things like resolution. Screen
dimensions and
> resolutions are fixed entities, and should be set to exactly match the
> hardware involved.
lee:
Many people still don't see it that way. And in a way, they are
right:
Nobody prevents you to use 800x600 on a display which is capable of
1920*1200.
However, modern displays only work well at one resolution, their native
resolution. Exact halves can work, but odd divisions do not work well.
Some of them are bloody awful.
> So simply playing with screen is X by Y pixels to set things up
is
> really inadequate.
When you consider screen resolutions as fixed entities, what other
choice do you have but to set up the resolutions of your displays as X
by Y pixels?
None, to be pedantic. But people bodge the resolution to solve other
problems:
The size of the fonts
The size of the icons
The size of graphics
Which really ought to be controlled, directly, and individually.
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