On 4/20/2011 5:32 AM, Ed Leafe wrote: > I watch most of the younger developers I work with, and they have the > highest resolution and the tiniest fonts possible on their displays. At my > age, my eyes can't possibly read that, much less work that way. > > Users increase font sizes because they *have* to, not because they > enjoy pissing off developers. Developers should accommodate these needs, > rather than complain about them. > > One of the things (among many!) that I prefer about developing UIs in > Dabo is the use of sizers to handle the layout. While it would be nice to > have this when developing on a single platform, it is essential when the same > layout has to work on multiple platforms, with the different default widget > sizes, fonts, etc. - it would be impossible to make things line up > consistently without them. And as a result, different user font settings are > automatically accounted for - in fact, we provide the same shortcut keys that > browsers use to allow users to change their font sizes easily in our apps.
My users for this particular software are older gentleman (and ladies), so I take that into account when I design the app. I pride myself on user-centric designs in my software applications and don't use ridiculously small font sizes, but there comes a point where I'm not sure how much I can "re-design" just because this guy wants to set his DPI setting to Large 120 (or worse) instead of the regular 96. I mean, choosing that Large 120 setting really swells up the fonts and causes things to run into each other. Are you telling me that what you've described above in Dabo compensates for joker moves like this? -- Mike Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC President, Chief Software Architect http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com http://fabmate.com http://twitter.com/mbabcock16 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
