Resolution indpendence

[Steven J Newbury]

On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 13:07 +0200, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 12:59:25AM +0200, olafBuddenhagen at gmx.net wrote:
> > I very much doubt that people working with a lot of text will generally
> > prefer smaller fonts. I'd rather suspect the opposite...
> 
> You'd be wrong.  From my experience in a research lab where people
> handles lots of text, people tend to go for the smallest font size
> their eyesight can cope with.  Some of them bump on the pixel grid,
> others don't.  That's with 1600x1200 20" screens (i.e. exactly
> 100dpi).  Ignoring half of them would be stupid.
> 
What stops them from selecting a small (bitmap even) font?  I don't see
what the DPI really has to do with it.  It only provides scaling
consistency between physical devices.