A Refreshing Take on Usability

Thursday, April 03 2008 4 Comments

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)

#1 Jim Whimpey avatar
Jim Whimpey
4.03.2008
9:16 PM

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


#2 Wim De Blende avatar
Wim De Blende
4.04.2008
10:53 AM

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


#3 Ben Scheirman avatar
Ben Scheirman
4.04.2008
11:50 AM

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


#4 Kidan avatar
Kidan
4.04.2008
12:00 PM

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