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    WXUGA Poor JPG & GIF Display on Web

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by cbois, Jun 11, 2004.

  1. cbois

    cbois Notebook Enthusiast

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    I got my 9100 two days ago, super fast and I like it. However, I've discovered a very anoying issue. When you have an WXUGA PC, dell sets the screen font at "large" instead of "normal". The difference here is 96 dpi vs. 120 dpi screen resloultion. Everything on screen looks great, no problem there. However when web browsing using Internet Explorer, all graphics, jpg and gif display fuzzy and at low resolution. If the screen font is dropped down to 96 dpi, the web page graphics display great. On my Inspiron 8000, UXGA, I'm running at 120 screen fonts and web page graphics are clear and sharp.

    Anyone else experience this issue? Since Dell ships the 9100 with the display fonts set to large, this is either a know issue or unique to mine. Screen fonts for the notebook should have nothing to do with graphics on web pages, but it seems to. Has anyone else found this problem?
     
    cbois, Jun 11, 2004
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    cbois Notebook Enthusiast

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    Of course I mean WUXGA, not WXUGA.
     
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    cbois Notebook Enthusiast

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    WUXGA issue appears to be related to Internet Explorer only. I think it has to do with the fact that new versions of Windows XP contain Sun Java, where older versions contained Microsoft Virtual Machine. IE doesn't seem to display graphics on websites correctly when the large display fonts are selected on a WUXGA screen. Netscape 7.1 is crystal clear. It would seem that this is probably a Microsoft issue. This is the result of two days of research. I haven't found anything on the Microsoft site, or Dell, but base on a compaison and testing using my Inspiron 8000 UXGA I think this is correct. If anyone can check to seek how their display is under similar settings it would be great.

    Chris
     
    cbois, Jun 14, 2004
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    srdhkl Notebook Evangelist NBR Reviewer

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    Chris,

    I think you are correct. Same thing happens with mine. My searches thru Dell's community website pretty much agree with what you say. Seems that we have to wait for Microsoft to come up with some fixes.
     
    srdhkl, Jun 14, 2004
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    cbois Notebook Enthusiast

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    I've attained a pretty good result for me with the following settings:

    1) 96 dpi screen display fonts (custom up to 100 dpi looks somewhat okay)
    2) In appearance setting large icons & large fonts

    If you don't use Internet Explorer, you can run higher display fonts, such as 120 dpi. This displays the best but the IE issue exists. Another solution is multiple or virtual desktops, one for IE, one for other stuff.

    Chris
     
    cbois, Jun 15, 2004
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