Friday, October 27, 2006

I've got a bunch of technical posts cooking, which has made my blogging output suffer, so I thought I'd get a quickie in here.

I've seen lots of people running their monitors in portrait mode rather than landscape.  It's very interesting, as this is a better fit for documents and you can get alot more source code on a screen as well.  The problem is that I love ClearType, and it doesn't work right in vertical mode.  It appears that ClearType is always rendered horizontally.  My video driver knows what the orientation of my monitor, why can't ClearType adjust and render the subpixels vertically?  Booo I say!

posted on Friday, October 27, 2006 7:52:48 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)  #    Comments [2]
Saturday, November 04, 2006 12:46:21 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
I noticed that too, on the 8125... ClearType works fine and looks great in the "normal" mode (vertical in this case), but it disappears when you slide out the keyboard and go horizontal. Same problem?
Monday, November 06, 2006 9:37:30 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Yup. That's basically the same scenario. At least Windows Mobile has the sense to turn it off, rather than just continue rendering ClearType.
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