800 or 1024 - Which min. display resolution to build for?

On Sun, 30 Apr 2006, Stewart Dean wrote:

> To add an extra twist to the mix pixels might not be a
reliable way to
> define sites in the future and points might become the
way pages are
> thought about. With the advent of better screen
technology one pixel
> defined might actualy be two pixels on screen. We're
on the verge of
> many users viewing things on much higher dpi screens.

I think you've misunderstood Dave Hyatt's recent musings
on high(er)
DPI websites if you've taken away that points might become
a preferred
unit of screen measurement (relative to the pixel).

-don
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What I find irritating is tiny type. They seem to have
assumed everyone is using 640x480 and 
hardcoded the size of the type, the columns, et al.

tOM

On Sunday, April 30, 2006 at 14:50,
d.brodale <sigia-lbrodale.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Apr 2006, Stewart Dean wrote:
> 
> > To add an extra twist to the mix pixels might not
be a reliable way to
> > define sites in the future and points might become
the way pages are
> > thought about. With the advent of better screen
technology one pixel
> > defined might actualy be two pixels on screen.
We're on the verge of
> > many users viewing things on much higher dpi
screens.
> 
> I think you've misunderstood Dave Hyatt's recent
musings on high(er)
> DPI websites if you've taken away that points might
become a preferred
> unit of screen measurement (relative to the pixel).


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tOM Trottier:

> hardcoded the size of the type

Unlike IE, non-Neanderthal web browsers can usually scale
type easily
regardless of what it was originally set at.

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