The 800 x 600 folk are where it’s at
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This is somewhat amusing. We have had all that interminable discussion about whether you should now design for the typical 1024 x 768 pixel resolution viewer or something even bigger. Yet the latest is that Microsoft is now bringing out the Ultra-mobile PC (UMPC) Display Emulator.
Here’s the description of what it does:
The UMPC Display Emulator is easy to use; however, it is not a hardware emulator or virtualized operating system. The UMPC Display Emulator is a developer tool intended to provide a quick and easy way to check screen layout and behavior at screen resolution of a UMPC. The UMPC Display Emulator sets your screen to the resolution of an ultra-mobile PC (800 × 480), while leaving your monitor’s physical resolution at its current setting. Essentially, the tool shows how your program, which is designed for a standard graphic user interface (GUI), appears in the typical resolution of a UMPC.
I was not able to download this, even though my computer correctly validated with Microsoft. However it seems to me that it would give me the same appearance as when I resize the window to 800 x 600 resolution. That’s a click of the mouse with the Firefox Web Developer extension, so I probably don’t need it anyway. It’s funny how what goes around comes around.
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