[geeks] Does size matter

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: "Jonathan C. Patschke" <jp at celestrion.net>
>Date: 2008/08/25 Mon AM 02:57:02 EDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Wow, PCs are cheap...

>On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Jonathan Groll wrote:
>
>>> Well, my father in-law will probably not run it at it's highest resolution 
>>> - his aging eyes will benefit from increased screen area...
>>
>> Not sure if there is any benefit to ever running a TFT screen at it's
>> non-native resolution?
>
>Indeed, just tell Windows to use "Large Fonts" and 128px icons.  Most of
>the UI will become reasonable for folks with poor vision, instead of
>blocky and fuzzy.

A good suggestion - same net effect (bigger letters), but that may not play well with some applications/websites, etc. that "hard code" font size...

>You'd think in this world of 3D-composited window systems we'd have
>resolution independence, already.

I think the programmers of the world are what is holding this back, the hardware can do it... I suspect they lack the will to do it. I would think that most enery is being spent on getting more info onto smaller displays (smart phones, netpads, etc.), not less information on larger displays...

Lionel