OpenEuphoria

Re: Nexus Radio Final Released

• Posted by Larry Miller <larrymiller at sasktel?net> Jul 06, 2007
• 629 views

DB James wrote:
> 
> C Bouzy wrote:
> > 
> > Hi DB,
> > 
> > Thank you for the feedback but I was not able to reproduce the error on two
> > different machines. I changed both the DPI and browser font and the layout
> > of
> > the site remained the same. I also viewed the site in different browsers
> > with
> > no change to the layout. But I am not worried either way because very few
> > users
> > change their DPI to higher values.
> > 
> > ~C. Bouzy
> > 
> > "If you do what you have always done, you will get what you always got."
> 
> Hi C,
> 
> Tnteresting that quote at the end of your reply... 
> 
> Quote from an article at Microsoft Developer Network:
> 
> "Does your application work on high-density displays? Probably not. The
> standard computer monitor today has a display of about 96 dots per inch (DPI),
> and most applications assume that they are running on a 96-DPI display. But
> that’s an increasingly dangerous assumption. Today, you can readily buy a
> laptop with a 133-DPI display; 170-DPI displays are just around the corner,
> and within the next few years, 200-DPI displays will be shipping in quantity.
> The industry journal DisplaySearch predicts that 40 percent of laptop sales
> will have greater than 100 DPI.."
> 
> --Quark

It should be noted, the above mentioned article was dated March 2001, more than
6 years ago.

Larry Miller