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Posted by aa on 01/16/07 10:10
Right you are
I am aware of the browsers/OS etc statistics and of opinion that in desire
to match all possible user setups and habits, one has to decide where to
draw the line.
I visited quite a lot of customers of the site in question, and also when
receive phone calls from the site I enquire what OS/browser a customer has
how the site looks there.
So far with my slice of visitors I never came across anything other then IE6
or higher and XP (with small exceptions for w2k). As to resolution, people
simply do not know and do not seem to care. Most probably they have what
they got by default, which now is most probably 1024x760
And even those few who browse with half-size browser window, they know to
click a littile (x) at the upper right corner to maximise the window is a
particular web-site looks better this way
Therefore admitting existence of Macs, Lynux, Opera etc, I believe that
taking into aqccount my customer base and limited resources instead of
spending time on these, it would be more beneficial to spend time on
developing the product
"Ed Mullen" <ed@edmullen.net> ???????/???????? ? ???????? ?????????:
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> aa wrote:
> > "Andy Dingley" <dingbat@codesmiths.com> ???????/???????? ? ????????
> > ?????????: news:1168894435.788686.142940@11g2000cwr.googlegroups.com...
> > > You'll get better results if you always set your display to the ideal
> >> resolution that your TFT display is designed for (1280 x 1024 ?) and
> >> then adjust the desktop font size and possibly the browser default size
> >> until the text is a convenient size.
> >
> > It might be worth trying but I do not care about desktop font size for
there
> > is no text to read on my desktop
> > I do care about forn size in the application
> > I am not sure that setting the font for application is the best way out
> > simply because not for all of them it si obvious how to do that.
>
> Every application may have a different way of dealing with displayed
> font size relative to OS font settings. You simply need to record what
> you have now (so you can revert if need be) and then experiment.
>
> > As to setting font size for browser, this does not seem good to me as it
> > most probably screw up a page if it was designed for another text size.
> > On the other hand you are right about usinf the best resolution for the
> > monitor.
> > What would you say?
>
> You can never expect anything on the Web. There are billions of pages
> created by tens or hundreds of millions of authors, most (I'm guessing)
> have little knowledge or understanding of the issues surrounding Web
> page development. So. Learn how your OS' and browser's display
> settings interact, how you can control your browser's display settings
> on the fly (e.g., Mozilla's "Text Zoom" function and using a mouse wheel
> to control it), etc. Or just give up and live with what you have now.
> There is no "right" answer, it's what you are willing to invest in
> learning and execution.
>
> In general, it's a trade off for you (or any individual user) of the
> time and energy to invest in learning vs. whatever benefit you might
> accrue. Doing nothing, however, is both the easiest course and the one
> which offers the least possibility of change and benefit.
>
> It's one of the most egalitarian of life's choices because it puts the
> control and decision in our own hands. Enjoy, there aren't that many
> such options in life. ;-)
>
> --
> Ed Mullen
> http://edmullen.net
> http://mozilla.edmullen.net
> http://abington.edmullen.net
> Old age is when you still have something on the ball but you are just
> too tired to bounce it.
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