Just after the launch of our newly redesigned site (http://www.networksolutions.com) we discovered there are problems displaying pages in IE on some displays using a higher DPI[1]. As near as I can figure it, IE scales the rendered page based on the DPI of the display in an effort to keep things roughly the same size. That's great for text, but makes images look like crap and, worst of all, seems to introduce rounding errors on the containers used thorughout the site.
Our quick'n'dirty solution/test was to introduce some Javascript that sniffs out the browser and DPI of the display and (in psuedo code), "if is_IE and nScaleFactor NOT 1) then setActiveStyleSheet to alternate". This worked for the test (our homepage), but the idea of introducing this EVERYWHERE is giving me a headache. The questions I present are, has anyone considered the broad effects of DPI differences in displays when using IE? Are these differences considered "serious enough" in your minds to make these changes actionable? Is there a "clean" solution (however you choose to interpret that)? Thank you all for the help, -Sam [1] DPI on most displays is set to 96ppi, however, on this particular laptop we were shown, the default (and shipping DPI) was 120ppi on a widescreen display. Though I could increase the DPI on my CRT to 120ppi, I could not reproduce the effect. ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
