consider people with poor vision

[Adam Williamson]

On Sat, 2013-06-15 at 15:46 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:

> > Well, no, that's absolutely useless and just reviving a decade old
> > bikeshed. That is not what I was planning to do at all. Fixed 96dpi is a
> > ship that's sailed.
> 
> It can't be denied that forcing is doing what it's doing. Whether to do 
> anything about it directly is a different matter. If there's an easier way to 
> keep text from shrinking as display size increases, fine; but don't continue 
> to penalize people who follow a logical course of action when they need or 
> want bigger. Text that shrinks as available space for it increases is idiotic.

You're drawing an erroneous conclusion from a sample of two displays. It
is not always the case that larger displays have a higher native DPI
than smaller displays. In fact, desktop PC displays almost all have DPIs
in the narrow range of 95-110 - varying within that range in a fashion
that is not predictably related to screen size - precisely because
Windows locks its DPI to 96 by default, and with a 'logical' DPI of 96,
a display with a 'physical' DPI of about 100-105 is what looks 'right'
to most people.
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