As a former troubleshooter/technician for a major desktop publishing
software company, I and all the other techs on the floor, quickly discovered
that the majority of users who called in (about 500 per day) were using
640x480. Arrggh. What a shock. Very rarely did anyone have a 1024 setting.
We tried to talk users into setting 800 x 600, but they just wouldn't do it
and eventually a pattern developed as to why. "Desktop publishing would
look nicer on higher res" was our reasoning. But it seems the majority had
Blue Light Specials for video cards. 512 VRAM. Try driving a monitor with
one of those bit-jammers. Even the video drivers were a joke. We used to
send our software parameters to the Video Driver Programmer's Castle In The
Sky, in care of the video card mfr., but truth is, they really didn't care.
Shove it out the door. Put it in a pretty box. Turn on the Blue Light.
It's interesting to surf the Web in 640 and see how pages look on my 15 inch
monitor, with a Diamond PCI/2 Mb card. It looks as if most designers did not
account for the lowest common denominator. The visual aspects of the Web
will remain muddy and full of acne until the hoard moves away from $99 cards
and Taiwan monitors. Not this Christmas.
--John
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John Hart
Editor/Publisher
johnhart@vegas.infi.net
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