--- Jason Dewayne Clinton [email protected] wrote:
On Friday 04 November 2005 11:53 am, Luke-Jr wrote:
Last I checked, XHTML/CSS handle dynamic
resolutions just fine...
Bahumbug. You need to check again. I run at 1600x1200 at 98 DPI and I can say with certainty that pages that are designed to fill the entire width of the page start to become unreadable when the font is 11pt.
Well there are configuration issues, web design issues and graphics issues all at play in this. Not to mention individual browser interpretation issues. First off if you configure your browser in a certain way you will override the browser's ability to render the web page to the best resoultion. Secondly, if the coder who wrote the web page did a poor job then the page may also display at a constant size which may not be readable on some displays. Thirdly, SVG wont help render fonts any better, unless you have some very strange installed fonts.
That means that lines are REALLY long and it becomes hard to follow line-by-line. Resolution isn't just width and height. On a good platform (X11 and Mac OSX) it also means the DPI of the monitor. And
DPI of the monitor? Please share with us whatever you're smoking. ;') Seriously though, I understand what you're trying to say here, but most websites are designed for 800x600 or 1024x768 *total* pixels. The DPI is really irrelevant when speaking of monitors. The bigger the monitor, the more total pixels and hence the lower the DPI of a webpage will be if stretched to higher than designed resolution. True, SVG might make this irrelevant ... someday.
that's to say nothing of the printing issues that are created by virtue of printing being done at 600 DPI or more while screens are in the lowly range of 75 - 110 DPI. The nasty differences are apparent when you try to print off a map from a web page and it becomes less readable.
And for what reason would you try to print at 600 dpi something that only has maybe 150 dpi, unless of course you are shrinking the output. This is like scanning in a 35mm negative at 600 dpi and trying to print an 8x10 picture from it and expect photo quality results. It is possible to scan in a 4x6 print at 600 dpi and print out a 6x8 print at photo quality. Most prints have 300 dpi, while most negatives have 3000-5000 dpi.
What /should/ happen is that web pages should become /sharper/ and /easier to read/ when more pixels are available; not smaller and harder to read.
Well, considering web pages weren't designed to do this, I have to disagree that they /should/. While at the same time I'll say it would be /nice/ if they did. However there are a lot of poorly designed websites, and a great many websites assign point sizes to text, and absolute pixel sizes to graphics, rather than proportional measures. So until the majority of the web gets rewritten to your standard you'll likely continue to have issues.
While, I'll give SVG in web pages two thumbs up for coolness factor, it'll be some time before I'll be doing any graphics for the web in SVG, unless it is for a targetted audience.
Brian JD