On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 02:27:04PM -0500, Mark Roberts wrote: > David Parsons wrote: > > >The dimensions requirement is screwy. I had to resize some landscape > >orientation pictures to be 900 pixels tall. Who codes a viewer > >exclusively by how tall a picture is? > > Anyone who expects viewers to be using a horizontally-oriented monitor > - where height is the limiting factor.
Quite. With the increasing use of widescreen formats, just knowing the width isn't enough to decide on the size of image needed. There are several ambiguous cases I know of (1024 by 768/600, 1280 by 1024/720). Even if you know it's a widescreen monitor, there are still ambiguities; I use a 1920x1200 Compaq (a 17" Macbook is also 1920x1200), but most of the 1920-wide displays are the 1920x1080 used by HDTV. Now that iPads and the like are becoming more common, assuming landscape orientation for the display is becoming a riskier proposition, but it is still probably good enough for 99% of the users (Occupy Screenspace!) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
