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Every form more than 600 pixels wide is a failure#

One thing that really irks me is some bits of Vista just don't fit on a 800x600 screen in portrait mode.

See how the right side of the dialog is off the screen?

This is just poor design. The minimum supported resolution for Vista is 800x600. Vista includes tablet functionality. Tablet screens rotate.

If you are building Vista apps assume that screen resolutions will vary and make sure they are still readable at 600 wide. Good design would have the above form resize.

TabletPC | TabletPC Dev | Vista
Wednesday, July 25, 2007 10:27:01 PM (AUS Eastern Standard Time, UTC+10:00) #   
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Thursday, July 26, 2007 1:46:38 PM (AUS Eastern Standard Time, UTC+10:00)
It's even worse than that. Both XP TE and Vista are supposed to be designed to run on the UMPC (Origami) line of devices. Their default resolution is 800x480 and I can't count how many dialogs don't fit, and that's just the Microsoft ones. You should try living with a screen where the buttons are off the bottom.
Geoff
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