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Re: [Digital BW] Optimizing Images for the Web

2004-12-21 by Sam McCandless

At 10:28 AM -0500 12/21/04, Mark Savoia wrote:
>I thought the resolution on monitors is either 72 ppi or 75 ppi, why 
>would you want more?

After having discontinued their CRTs, Apple seems to be standardizing 
its LCDs on 100 ppi, which they say is optimized for images but is 
also convenient for the manipulation of text:

<http://images.apple.com/displays/pdf/Displays_TO_06282004.pdf>

Of course most viewers don't have an Apple display. And besides I 
don't know that the best spec at which to view the image is 
necessarily the best spec at which to post it. Nothing seems to me to 
be that simple any more.
--
Sam

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