I write the occasional web page, and I was thinking about screen size as it relates to web content. In the past I had not given it much consideration, except that when I made some pages for a cellphone (128x128 pixels, $0.02/kb data charges) I made them much smaller with no or tiny graphics. The Nokia tablets are 800x480, and I can't see pocket PC displays getting much bigger than 1000x500. If they were physically larger, they would not fit in a pocket, and if the pixels were smaller you would need reading glasses (I already need 3 diopter glasses; I only need 1.0 for a PC screen or paperbacks in good light...). Regular laptops have about reached the limit; too. Any bigger and they would not fit in a briefcase or on an aircraft tray. On the other hand, desktops can get physically larger (we have some 2x4 panel arrays) and wall displays can get even bigger. Mainstream LCD panels are changing to 16x9 aspect ratio and HDTV 1920x1080 for single panels. So what are we to write content for ? Not so much a problem for legacy HTML which just flows to fit the width, but the modern graphic-rich stuff assumes a width of about 1024 or more. Maybe we can dynamically adjust the images to fit. I was playing with this at http://andrew.triumf.ca/js/alternate.cssxi.html But really, we don't want to send so much data over 3G in the first place, so the content needs to be available in smaller pages for tablets and cellphones. Which needs some kind of size-sensitive CMS system to handle it. -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
