Subj : Re: Dynamic screen resizing
To : Nightfox
From : Ree
Date : Fri Dec 05 2014 09:34 am
> My main point, though, was that dynamic terminal resizing is currently not
> part of any BBS client standard (that I know of). Going with your web
> development analogy, adding something like that to Synchronet & SyncTerm
> would be akin to Microsoft making their own changes to Internet Explorer
> that nobody else supports. That isn't necessarily a good idea.
I think it's actually a great idea. That's how some really cool features came
about. For example Canvas was first implemented by Apple for WebKit, then
Gecko added it, then Opera, then eventually it became a standard.
So Apple creating Canvas wasn't a bad idea. And someone making use of Canvas
to dynamically manipulate an image while still showing the stock image to
browsers that don't support Canvas is also not a bad idea. And that is
exactly what is being proposed here. Try to use a larger screen if it is
supported, but use 80x24 (or whatever) as a fallback if it's not supported.
