On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 14:38, Havoc Pennington wrote: > Ben Ford <ben kalifornia com> writes: > > I read this as saying, "Application authors should write complex logic > > to deal with every possible situation so that we, as platform > > designers, do not have to do so. If it does not do this then it is > > 'broken and smoking crackrock'." > > Is this incorrect? > Yes. On every other platform apps are expected to adapt to small > screen size. > While viewports are a fine workaround for an app that can't be made to > fit on 800x600, using an app across multiple viewports certainly sucks > more than having a scrollbar in the app. I'd definitely consider it an > application bug if I _had_ to use viewports to use the app. Viewports are not such a workaround, although they may be used as such. I strongly use viewports on two 1024x768 desktops and a 1280x1024 desktop. Again, don't try to outsmart users. One thing is set really good defaults, another is considering that users that use their apps in a different way is stupid, in the name of the GPL, I claim my first freedom, if you please. > I don't think a scrollbar or ggv-style drag-scrolling (or keyboard > shortcut scrolling) are particularly complex, they are standard GUI > features. Pressing PageDown to scroll the app down isn't fundamentally > doing somehting different than pushing alt-downarrow to go to the > viewport below; either way I'm now viewing the bottom half of the app. This IS crack pipe smoking :) Hugs, rms -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Ghandi + So let's do it...?
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