WUXGA for Flash Development
I picked up my new laptop on Sunday and now I’ve had a couple days to use it for work. First off, I have to say wow. WUXGA means I get 1920×1200 resolution on this widescreen 15.4″ LCD screen. Everyone I show this to says the resolution is too high but I am absolutely loving it. Everything is so crystal-clear! I look at my old CRT and it’s like my eyes are watery. I have tons of room for development in Flash, Dreamweaver, PhotoShop, or anything. I’ve seen the new Mac LCD flatscreens (even the 30″) and I have to say that this is more clear and sharp. In regards to the Flash IDE in particular, the widescreen is a godsend. I no longer feel at all cramped by the sidebars. Anywho, I just wanted to gush a little.
July 14th, 2005 (5 years ago)
I have dell inspiron 8600 WUXGA for a year+ now, and, everybody that saw it loves it’s resolution. Next time I buy a laptop, i’ll go for same resolution again.
Enyoj it ;-)
-j
February 18th, 2006 (4 years, 5 months ago)
Hey,
As a fellow webdesigner, I wanted to know what your opinion was on doing graphics on 15.4 screens. Yeah, there’s more space to work with tool bars and palettes, but how do you ensure that what you spent painstaking hours on to make look good will look just like that when it translates onto a normal 4:3 ratio screen?
I’m really stumped here.
Cheers
P
February 18th, 2006 (4 years, 5 months ago)
Prairie: I personally never have my web browser set to fullscreen. It is always a floating window set to 4:3 for the purpose of testing and because I don’t really like how most sites are displayed on a widescreen. Another thing is that I have an extra 19″ 4:3 CRT monitor that I plug in occasionally and can test whatever I’m building at various resolutions. Plus to be absolute certain that everything looks good, I usually try the project out on my girlfriend’s laptop and also on a Mac via my work’s G5 or SafariTest.
Hope this helps,
Todd
February 24th, 2006 (4 years, 5 months ago)
Hi Todd,
That helps a lot, thanks. I guess I’ve always just maximized the windows to maximize work space. Now how would I go about setting a web browser or a photoshop window to 4:3? Or do they all automatically pop open as a 4:3? Sometimes I drag and drop the windows and I know that this can change their ratios…
Prairie