Re: Tapble top fusion generator

hhc314@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

>Hi Jim,
>
>Mabe so, but I've never had a problem with reading anyones site since I
>increased my monitor format to 1280x1024 and display it on a Mitsubishi
>19" monitor using the default text size an drive it with the no-frills
>on-board graphics that came with my ASUS motherboard.

I'm running 1280x1024 on a 19" display. 3ghz Athlon and a medium
range 128meg video card. However, some people aren't lucky enough to
own larger monitors and high end video cards. But there are other
reasons for viewing problems. Pretend you have a vision problem and
change your font sizes to 125% or 150% at the system level. A very
tiny percentage (<1%) of the sites you visit should have a problem if
your experience is similar to mine. However, an interesting site like
Brian's has unreadable parts.

>I suspect that some readers my be attempting to read Brian's website
>using a screen format less than 1280x1024 and the low -resolution LCD
>common to many laptops. The problem here is that when you use the
>proper text size on the small screens on these type systems, you will
>of course not be able to clearly display the text from any website
>posting high resolution material and if you choose larger type, it will
>create a character overlap when your browser is trying to fit the
>entire field within the graphics window.

So, Brian's web site is NOT for people using laptops, people with
vision problems or those who can't afford high resolution display
hardware? <grin>

>Since the poster writing about the character overlap, he didn't mention
>the type of computer that he is using to view, so it could be as bad as
>attempting to view it on a dated laptop or even using (ugh) WEBTV and
>viewing it on an NTSC television screen. It would be helpful to know.

<joke on> I don't count WebTV people as real internet users nor
people that should be reading about fusion experiments. They tend to
be the folks that light crosses on lawns when they are not tending
their meth labs. <joke off>

>Only recentedly I upgraded my old Pentium Pro 200 based system with a
>high-end accelerated graphics card to a totally new Pentium 4 based
>system with on-board, no-frills graphics. There was no visible change
>in the appearance or presentation of websites (including CNN which I
>also frequently watch) when my display setting of 1280x1024. If I
>change resolution to 1024x768 I will of course see character overlap if
>I keep the character size constant. (Changing the character size on
>most browsers in usuall a 'no brainer' in my opinion, but the procedure
>for doing so varies with the software you are using.)

Yup, when you change character sizes, you can get overlap. Problem
is, when you make one web site viewable, you can render others
unreadable. The annoying switching can be avoided by writing web
pages that are not effected by font size changes.

>I'd advise Brian to keep his website just as it is today.
>
>Kindest regards, Harry C.

Unfortunately, some people CAN'T read the smaller type fonts. I
thought this was mentioned before but I'll repeat it. For instance, I
have a bit of a vision problem. I have to read with fonts enlarged by
125% to 150% to prevent eyestrain.

The clue as the cause and <shudder> the blame is that 99.99% of all
other web sites appear OK but Brian's web site that has formatting
problems. When you put formatting control into a web page, you may
need to check for things such as screen resolution and font size.
This can be done with Javascript but some people have Javascript
disabled for security reasons.

--
Jim


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