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Posted by Onideus Mad Hatter on 08/01/07 14:08
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 12:39:26 +0100, Toby A Inkster
<usenet200707@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:
>> ...actually if your screen settings are making text too small to
>> read...you do have a problem with your display settings. Why on earth
>> your stupid ass is using an ultra high display setting and then
>> over-compensating for it by using bloated default text and icon
>> sizes...I don't know...but it's pretty gawd damn fuckin stupid.
>No -- it's quite sensible. 8px text at 640x480 pixels is exactly the same
>physical height as 16px text at 1280x960 pixels, but the 16px text looks a
>lot better: the extra pixels allow the curves to be smoother.
Actually, no, you're completely and totally WRONG on that point since
most system fonts are VECTOR BASED, true type fonts, which are
anti-aliased you fucking retard.
>An image or Flash movie with text fixed at 8px might be unreadable at
>1280x960. Cutting down the display to 640x480 will double its size, so
>increase its legibility, but it will look butt-ugly. If an HTML file has
>text at 8px, you can just roll up the text size, making it 16px.
Yeah, maybe on YOUR computer where your display settings look like
THIS:
http://www.backwater-productions.net/_images/_Usenet/Toby_The_Trainable.png
Some of us don't have that short between the keyboard and chair like
you obvious have.
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