Thread: New iPhone will help N900 users?
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2010-06-25 , 06:33
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Originally Posted by timwatt View Post
One thing I never anticipated was the high resolution on the n900, it is a bit of a problem in the content is too small, (not the case with the n810 800 x 480 4.1" screen)

Now the iphone with over 325dpi comes along and we start taking about separate web pages for mobile devises again. why? not because of any technical limitation but because we have gone and added too much resolution to the darn screen! from a designer with 20 20 vision around 225 dpi for a mobile screen resolution is bordering on small.
actually it's not the resolution that's the problem. it's the fact that both web designers and browsers forgot how to properly deal with different resolutions.

a browser is meant to know the real dpi value of the screen and render pages accordingly - which, of course, means that web designers give meaningful information about the size of screen elements.

in reality, browsers use a fake dpi value and web designers use pixels (!!!) as a unit for font sizes etc. - this has to fail.