Re: metallized interface (offtopic rant)
Re: metallized interface (offtopic rant)
- Subject: Re: metallized interface (offtopic rant)
- From: "David W. Halliday" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 12:25:59 -0600
- Organization: TNRCC
Simon Stapleton wrote:
On Friday, Nov 1, 2002, at 23:48 Europe/Paris, David W. Halliday wrote:
...
Hopefully, there will come a day when we have a more "true" device
independent system, where we, as users, can decide how many pixels
represent a unit of length. Right now there are too many aspects of
the user interface that insist upon being drawn based upon numbers of
pixels (though this will help shrink things as we go to displays with
more than 100 pixels/inch). (I look forward to the day when our
displays will have upward of 300 pixels/inch.)
Indeed. As resolutions go up, the toolbars become more usable, but
the aforementioned close button becomes a smaller and smaller target,
and relatively closer to the minimise button...
Of course this is the reason for wanting the interface to be
resolution independent: Then items /can/ stay the same physical size,
even as the resolution goes astronomical. (Can you imagine if printing
were /not/ resolution independent? Would you want to ever read a 79 dpi
document on a 4800 dpi printer?)
Simon
...
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