Exactly, who can read text all the way across a wide format screen. I am amazed that almost all the tablet makers are still using the 16x9 ratio for their displays. They think the only use of a tablet is to watch a widescreen movie. I prefer the older 4x3 format for the Internet and reading. It seems only Apple knows this. When I see a wide screen tablet, I see a 4x3 device with the sides cut off. Not a convient shape to use.
My 24" Dell Ultrasharp and my 24" iMac has a resolution of 1920 X 1200. Both have a 16 10 aspect ratio. My 40" Samsung HDTV (720p) which I use with my Mac Mini to surf the web from bed, has a resolution of 1360 X 768. Viewed from 10 feet away, it looks fine
Home: 2048 x 1152 (Dell SP2309W)
Tablet: 800 x 1,280 (Nexus 7 - usually in portait orientation)
Cell: 800 x 480 (Nexus S )
Work: 1280x800 + 1280x1024 (laptop plus 2nd screen)
Both at home and at work, I use two 1920x1080 27" monitors. Would like to upgrade to higher resolution 30" monitors, but that's a bit of a pipe dream right now.
At home - 2560x1440. At work 1680x1050. Or 1280x1024 but with no pictures on the box on my desk that my employer lets me use which is less powerful than most of the phones I own.
Otherwise on my phone screens - 320x480, 960x640 or 1280x720. Yes, I carry 3 phones. It’s a pain.
I normally browse on my 1920x1200 desktop or 1280x800 notebook, but only sometimes with the entire screen. Normally it’s a 640x480 or 800x600 window, using a lightning-fast minimal browser called Dillo. I only switch to a full-featured browser when I actually want to post something.
When I encounter a pic too big for my minimal browser, I’ll either fullscreen it temporarily or semi-fullscreen it or grow/maximize it vertically or horizontally. Just depends on what I need, and it’s all only a hotkey away.
However, it’s annoying when people post images with only one dimension specified, because the aspect ratio ends up way off and I have to view the image standalone in order to tell what shape things really are. So, when people use ‘width=“100%”’, it almost always breaks the picture for me. However, specifying the size in pixels like ‘width=“800” height=“600”’ (or just not specifying anything at all) will scale down using the correct aspect ratio, so it actually looks better to me when people don’t try to make it mobile-friendly.
I’ve only occasionally tried to use BLF on my 480x800 phone. I couldn’t view many images correctly (for the aspect-ratio reason given above), and it just isn’t very fast or convenient for me.
Slightly off topic, but I really would love to see an Android app for browsing/posting to BLF. CPF can use Tapatalk, but I can’t figure out a good way to read BLF from my phone.
My mobile phone now features a full HD resolution on 4.7". That is so incredibly sharp.. the difference to 720p is visible when browsing the web or reading texts. :D