Thursday, April 03, 2008

A Refreshing Take on Usability

I was browsing some high resolution dual & tri screen monitor wallpapers at http://wallpaper.panedia.com/ and I noticed something really cool. They looked at my user agent string and resolution settings to determine which wallpaper was best for me.

Considering that (without 3rd party add ons) Windows can't display more than 1 image on multi-monitor setups, you have to choose 1 large image. They were nice enough to highlight the correct resolution as well. Kudos to Panedia for that!

(note: there were a ton of sizes available, my highlighted suggestion was way at the bottom)

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Thursday, April 03, 2008 7:16:32 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Thanks! We worked hard trying to figure out the best way to make that download table work as well as possible.

Jim Whimpey | helloAT NOSPAMjimwhimpey dot com

Friday, April 04, 2008 8:53:05 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Hi Ben, nice posts on NHibernate, that's how I found your blog.
I am just wondering why the font of the posts is zo large. Normally I can change the font size by pressing the control button and scrolling with the mouse, but this is not possible on your blog.

Would it be possible to use smaller fonts?

Apart from that, nice blog!

Kind regards,
Wim

Wim De Blende | hypoAT NOSPAMmail dot be

Friday, April 04, 2008 9:50:05 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

@Wim: Ctrl-scroll works for me in firefox. What browser are you using?

Ben Scheirman

Friday, April 04, 2008 10:00:50 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Actually, you can use multiple images across multiple monitors, even without 3rd party hacks.

Go to Properties->Desktop Tab->Click "Customize Desktop"->Web tab->Click "New"->Click "Browse"->Find image->Click OK

This will create an image on your desktop that resides as the background, which you can then maximize on a per-monitor basis,