Any UI guidelines to work with (was: Re: Question about Dell ...)


Sven wrote:

[snip]

> Remember your screen didn't
get any bigger. Hold your PPC out at arms length. Now hold it twice as far away.

There is the option to adjust the font size on a system wide basis to get more or less information on the screen, but it doesn't let you get all the way to "four times" as much.

[snip]

So, yea, the view out of the box looks pretty much the same as far as what's on the screen, but it looks a lot sharper. You have some control over text size to get more use of the screen real estate. You can get software and hacks to actually force it to display full VGA, but at the cost of text/icon/etc size. Usability depends on the user.

So, the obvious question after this nice summary on resolution: has anyone already compiled any guideline? After all, it's not all about resolution. There's also contrast, color use, broad daylight. I could certainly do with some guidance here...

Sandor
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