Mac / Windoze..How does it look?

[David DeCristoforo]

Worked for years on a Mac. Then cost constraints and the need for a
more powerful computer drove me to Windoze. Now I'm back on the Mac
(actually using both) and I forgot how much better things look on the
Mac. I recently made some buttons on the Mac using FWMX that looked
great, very refined and clean. But when I checked out the site on the
Win. box they looked like s..t!...bulky and crude. This slapped my
memory awake and I recalled that, somewhere in my lifetime, I had
learned that Windoze uses a lower res than MacOS which causes things
to look bigger than on the Mac. I love my Mac but sometimes I have to
wonder if it's really worth it to be part of a 3% minority......
DD


"It's easy when you know how..."
Johnny Shines

[Lanny Chambers]

In article <mogmovsacchl564218bcthbv49il0uftii@4ax.com>,
David DeCristoforo <david@wintersnet.net> wrote:

> This slapped my
> memory awake and I recalled that, somewhere in my lifetime, I had
> learned that Windoze uses a lower res than MacOS which causes things
> to look bigger than on the Mac.

Either platform will let you set the screen resolution (pixel
dimensions) pretty much anywhere you wish, within the limits of the
video card and monitor. You should be able to make them identical, if
both monitors are the same size. This assumes both are CRTs, not flat
screens.

Perhaps your Mac's monitor is simply higher quality than the PC's. The
video signal should be essentially identical.

--
Lanny Chambers, St. Louis, USA
[url]http://www.hummingbirds.net/[/url]

[David DeCristoforo]

Both systems have LCD monitors set to the recomended "default"
resolution. Both are very good monitors connected to very good video
cards. The buttons looked just as bad on my friends PC wich has a
decent 17" CRT.
DD



"It's easy when you know how..."
Johnny Shines

[darrel]

A pixel is a pixel. It's determined by the monitor...not the OS.

So, a 10 pixel image on a Mac will be 10 pixels. On a Windows machine, 10
pixels.

Measurements that need to be mapped to pixels, like points, or ems and such
MAY be different based on the OS. Apple will map physical measurements to 72
ppi, a PC, 92ppi (or was it 96ppi? I forget...)

Most modern Mac browser now let you set that variable as a preference.

Anyways, don't forget Linux.

-Darrel

[-pk-]

Can you post a link or one of the buttons?
pk

"David DeCristoforo" <david@wintersnet.net> wrote in message
news:sh1nov4fn3f8qacj26do8mft95kjvmo9ke@4ax.com...

> Both systems have LCD monitors set to the recomended "default"
> resolution. Both are very good monitors connected to very good video
> cards. The buttons looked just as bad on my friends PC wich has a
> decent 17" CRT.
> DD
>
>
>
> "It's easy when you know how..."
> Johnny Shines

[Stéphane Bergeron]

David DeCristoforo wrote:

> Both systems have LCD monitors set to the recomended "default"
> resolution. Both are very good monitors connected to very good video
> cards. The buttons looked just as bad on my friends PC wich has a
> decent 17" CRT.

"Just as bad" is a pretty vague description. Describe what you mean by
bad. By default, Windows machines actually have a higher resolution than
Macs (96 vs 72 ppi) or at least did before OS X. Now I'm not quite sure.
The one major difference is usually with gamma. Things tend to look
darker (sometimes much darker) on Windows than they do on Macs.
Secondly, what are the default resolutions you are talking about? If the
Mac and Win machines do not run the same resolution then graphic will
indeed look different. I run my Win XP machine with a 19" CRT at 1280 x
1024 res and graphics do not look bulky and crude on it I can assure you.

Also, the look of things can be significantly affected by what version
of Windows one is using. Text looks better by an order of magnitude on
my Win XP Pro machine with ClearType turned on than on the Win 2K box I
have at work or my old Win 98 box, both of which have the default old
style "text smoothing" turned on. ClearType is similar to OS X's Quartz
and apparently looks just as good.

Cheers!

Stéphane Bergeron