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[rolanni]

So, I woke up this morning with the palm of my right hand itching, which, asyouknowBob, is a sign that money will soon cross it.

Alas, my psyche got its signals mixed. What it had really meant to convey was the fact that my monitor had died the True Death on the overnight and I was destined to part with money at the local Staples in order to be able to read the morning comics.

Silver lining: The new screen is a twenty-two-incher, nice and bright; really, I could have used this the other day when I was doing all that layout. And, hey! I can see all of a Live Journal page without having to scroll from side to side (yes, I do keep my resolution that fat; nearsighedness isn't for sissies.)

Steve is cooking lunch; after, I'll put my desk back together and then get on with my day.

Comments

[kahva.livejournal.com]

(yes, I do keep my resolution that fat; nearsighedness isn't for sissies.)

THANK YOU. When I still had my 15" monitor before it died a neon-hued death, I had a friend who kept saying each time I couldn't see all of her wonderful backgrounds she would make for webpages, "Change your resolution, you'll be able to see everything." I couldn't seem to get it through her head back then that making things smaller on an already small monitor just wasn't a good thing for someone as near-sighted as me. Surfing without headaches is far more important to me than getting all of a pretty background picture on my monitor.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

As far as I'm concerned any website which requires a particular resolution (either large or small) or a particular browser or facilities (JavaScript, Flash, etc.) has lost my custom. That includes ones with fixed text sizes too small, and ones using CSS where if you change the text size it displays badly (it overlaps) and ones where the background obscures the text with certain colours.

HTML was designed to contain the information, with hints (like "new paragraph here"), so that the user could decide how to display it (colours, font size, etc.). Sites which are 'clever' break that and become useless.