@nikolajhendel

Thanks for the laugh!

@anyone else who cares to read the rest of my post

I think that screen technology is tending towards a point of resolution independence for devices.

At one point, we relied upon fix fonts and bitmap icons for fast display, but most modern operating systems have elements of resolution independence built in: vector fonts, rasterized interfaces, svg icons, etc. Even linux based x windows include details of the screens dimensions (in addition to the resolution) which opens the possibility of resolution independent windows which select programs/toolkits take advantage of.

It's evident in video games and movies, that display the same content regardless of the resolution. The increased resolution just means increased clarity.

Web technologies are beginning to show this as well. CSS has the unit 'em' to size fonts, and even flash (which heavily relies upon vectors) makes it easy to scale the window regardless of the screen resolution. In these scenarios, on the same sized screen, the objects will remain a constant size, regardless of the res.

Certainly freemantle seems to be no exception to this direction. The hinted clutter based UI is inherently vector based (polygons). The neat thing about Maemo apps is that the majority of them (correct me if I'm wrong) always display at near full screen, which make Freemantle the PERFECT platform to push the idea of resolution independence.

From a UI developers standpoint, resolution independence should be EASIER, provided the tools exist to display vectors, scale rasters, etc, so long as a sane viewing window size is assumed. This is because developers no longer need to consider the case of different resolutions when producing works. In other words, they can consider a static viewing window, and just worry about the contents rather than alternate view cases.

So, I think that, with the right mind-set and developer tools, the N900 could easily handle a 1024x600 (and beyond) screen, without implying eye-strain.

Have a lucky day!

YARR!
}:^)~

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