On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 06:56:31PM -0500, Mark Roberts wrote: > John Francis wrote: > > >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!) > > I have a Toshiba Thrive (Android tablet) and one of the nice things > about tablets for photo display is the way they reorient the picture > for how you're holding the device. Than way you can use the full > screen whether you're showing a horizontal or vertical photo.
The point I was trying to make was that a lazily-written application than only looked at display height would have sufficed until now - catering only to landscape displays would have worked most of the time. Now, with portrait displays becoming more common (and with devices that can change orientation frequently) that is no longer good enough. -- 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.
