On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 16:10, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > After some initial euphoria with the QXGA 2Kx1.5K T60 laptop > (two page 12 point text in OpenOffice looks wonderful!), I am > running into font problems, mostly browser related. > > Google gadgets are clipped. Some flash content comes in Really > Small. Some use 5x7 fonts, the line spacing is 1.2 mm! Thumbnails > are tiny. I imagine I will find fixes, but the original incentive > (making cleaner looking, easier to read characters for old eyes) > is not happening the way I had hoped. > > The pixels on this thing are 0.15mm. Crazy small. An iPhone is > 0.16mm, and an 11.6 inch WXGA 1101 EeePC is 2.3mm. > > Yes, I can use a magnifier like kmag, or bring the machine up > in 1024x768 screen mode. The Ctrl+ "view larger" on firefox > does expand pictures, but some things ignore that. > > Hopefully, in a week or two, I will find some fixes, probably some > hidden firefox configuration parameters. Meanwhile, I can think > vengeful thoughts about all the young programmers writing unscalable > apps. Someday, their young eyes will get old, they will no longer > be able to see their own apps, get fired, and live in the gutter :-/
opera does a much better job than firefox of scaling the page, graphics, layout, and plugins included, to any size. firefox has been catching up lately, but it's still no contest. i use a monitor from 6' away every day and while i did ruin my eyesight doing it on a 14" greenscreen in the 90's, my eyesight has not degraded in the past 8 years since i got a decently sized monitor (just 21"), picked a font that is larger for all my apps (took some doing to get stuff like menus in opera/firefox to use the bigger font, but i don't use all that many apps, really), and found that opera scaled every damn thing including flash videos when i make the page bigger. anyway, while i am an evangelist for opera (disclosure, they used to give me schwag since i ran a user group for them in austin, but it's been a long time since that was true), it actually does perform far better when you have a monitor that's got pixels too small or is too far away from your face. worth trying, methinks, before you ditch the monitor. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
