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Spoken like someone who doesn't have to wear reading glasses. Us old folks will be fighting this one. ;-)
by jenkstom 9y ago
Spoken like someone who doesn't have to wear reading glasses. Us old folks will be fighting this one. ;-)
- rocqua 9y agoLet the user specify a zoom factor, but then 12pt text zoomed by a factor X is the same on every display. There is some issue with how this should interact with certain things (like touch distance). Should two buttons that are 2cm apart be 4cm or 2cm apart after scaling by a factor of two? There is a fringe case of a display-based ruler, that essentially shouldn't zoom.
- mark-r 9y agoIdeally you'd want 2 zoom factors, one for visuals and one for touch. But then you'd potentially have buttons that couldn't hold their labels anymore. I think one zoom factor should be sufficient. Given that we can't support actual-size rulers today, I think we've demonstrated that we can live without them. P.S. for low resolution displays it's obvious that clear text and graphics is more important than absolute size.
- jlarocco 9y agoA "point" is a unit of measure. If a person wants to zoom in or out, it's up to them, but by definition a point is 1/72 of an inch. We don't change the definition of a mile based on the type of vehicle travelling it, and we shouldn't change the definition of a point based on the type of display viewing it.
- hinkley 9y agoYou don't hang out with any sailors or fishermen, do you...
- javajosh 9y agolol yeah i was about to point out nautical miles and knots, but you beat me to it.
- swixmix 9y agoAlso, a calorie may be 1000 calories (kcal) depending on who is writing it. It's clear that nautical miles aren't miles. Not so clear for calories and maybe points. What should we call them? Cyber points? Relative points?