Subj : Re: Dynamic screen resizing
To   : Nightfox
From : Kirkman
Date : Wed Dec 03 2014 10:31 pm

> That's an interesting idea, but the downside is that it would be a
> proprietary thing supported by SyncTerm and Synchronet, and other terminal
> software might never adopt that standard.  At the very least, it shouldn't
> break other terminal programs, but such large ANSIs would look ugly on
> those terminal programs, as you describe.  Also, there are some people who
> like to configure old DOS terminal programs in an emulator to be used over
> telnet for the nostalgia factor, and those terminals of course are no
> longer being updated.

If the hooks to make this work existed within SyncTerm and Synchronet, then it
would be up to the sysop/app developer to handle it gracefully, much the same
way that good web design should degrade gracefully for people using older
browsers.

You could have your app check for the end user's terminal capabilities. If
they were using a SyncTerm that supported the resizing feature, then go ahead
and serve an enlarged, enhanced experience. If not, stick to the standard
80x25.

Anyway, at this point the user base is so small that this idea probably
doesn't matter. But when I saw those oversized ANSIs, I imagined how cool it
could be to see games like Chicken Delivery or Star Trek on a larger canvas
(with more graphical detail possible).

--Josh

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