Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 09/13/05 23:38

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Jim Higson revealed that:

> Spartanicus, who had requested me to killfile him, had been scribbling
behind my back, and making various assumptions which go way beyond the
testimony that is in evidence. But I shall make allowances, and respond
to a few points despite that.

[...]
> > Another issue that Mr Flavell is confused about are high resolution
> > screens.

I was responding to a question about the availability of high resolution
screens. Is that so upsetting?

> > The 200PPI monitors referred to by him are not intended, or
> > suitable for general usage.

At the price, it's hardly surprising.

> > Bitmapped resources (icons, buttons and
> > other UI elements, images etc.) shrink down to a size that is very
> > difficult to use.

Sure. Which is why Microsoft have an article explaining their OS features
which *compensate* for that.

> > What Mr Flavell doesn't get is that these screens are
> > intended to be used in a dual monitor setup in conjunction with a
> > monitor with a normal resolution which displays the OS and the
> > application UI.

It's one way of dealing with the situation, certainly. Both Microsoft and
IBM, in their various offerings, demonstrate that it's not the only way.

Anyway: how difficult was it to discern that my discussion of these beasts
in relation to the WWW, given their price, was whimsical at the moment?
This line below my discussion:

|| But seriously...

might have given some kind of clue.

But I've no doubt that things *will* develop in that direction, and, as
long as some authors are fixated on designs that only work at about
100dpi, there's going to come a point where the flexibility snaps.

Meantime, perhaps Spartanicus would care to write to Iiyama and lecture
them in corresponding terms about their CRT displays, since, according to
them, their Visionmaster Pro 454 19" display (e.g HM903DTB) supports
resolutions (their term) up to 2048x1536. (Corresp. display area given as
366x274mm, for those who are calculating in the margin). Not that it
matters, but I wasn't going that far with mine.

bon soir

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