Subj : Re: Dynamic screen resizing
To   : Kirkman
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Dec 04 2014 07:57 am

  Re: Re: Dynamic screen resizing
  By: Kirkman to Nightfox on Wed Dec 03 2014 22:31:12

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

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

For that to work best, it would be best to have different versions of an ANSI -
One oversized and another 80x25.  Most ANSIs are drawn in only one size though.
Perhaps the alternative would simply be not to show an oversized ANSI for
someone with a terminal that's not large enough or can't be expanded.

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.

Nightfox

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