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.

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