|
|
Posted by TaliesinSoft on 02/16/07 15:56
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 04:48:28 -0600, Andy Dingley wrote
(in article <1171622908.894975.314100@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>):
> With Freeway I can design a trivial site with "a short word in a small
> coloured box." On my desktop this sits as a tiny box up near the top
> of the page, just as I intended. On my phone (200px screen) it fills
> the whole display and is far bigger than the contained word. This is
> _not_ what I intended to happen. Freeway takes this bogus concept of
> "pixel identical rendering in all contexts" and forces it across the
> web, even to devices where it's inappropriate to do so (the font size
> in pixels varies widely between my desktop and my phone). Just try re-
> sizing the font or changing browser window size in a Freeway-designed
> site!
Actually, I think the long term answer lies in the presentation device,
computer, cellphone, television, etc., having the capability of arbitrarily
magnifying, reducing, and navigating the image. This has already happened
somewhat with Mac OS X (at least as it currently runs on my MacBook Pro) in
that I can arbitrarily magnify an image and yet navigate to those parts of
the image that might, as a result of the magnification, be off screen. My
expectation is that this separation of display from hardware specifics will
be better in Leopard. We'll see.
--
James Leo Ryan ..... Austin, Texas ..... taliesinsoft@mac.com
Navigation:
[Reply to this message]
|