Screen everywhere I look

27 March 2003

It so happens that my trusty old monitor was becoming less trusty by the day and less and less usable, but even so I feel sightly indulged with this new monitor I’ve bought. Compared with the 17 inch Iiyama I had previously, it seems like there’s screen everywhere I look. I have a 19 inch monitor at work, but I’m sure the viewable area must be far smaller than this thing.

Don’t you just hate it when essential technology dies and you are forced to replace it with something new and wonderful? Damn it.

- Drew McLellan

Comments

View blog reactions

Comments

§ mike: Any reason why you chose a CRT over a flat panel...? I need a new monitor but hadn’t even thought about anything other that a flatie.
§ Drew: Bang for the buck. Space isn’t a problem for me (nice big desk), but I do want to get the most for my money. Weighing it up, I couldn’t find a major advantage for TFT. They’re a little easier on the eyes but that’s not so much of an issue with a high quality CRT.

The major disadvantages of TFT are cost (the same money would have only got me a 15 inch TFT), and quality. Consumer grade TFT screens are basically industrial grade TFTs that have failed quality assurance. That is to say, they’re always imperfect.

Photographs

Work With Me

At edgeofmyseat.com we build custom content management systems, ecommerce solutions and develop web apps.

Affiliation

About Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan has been hacking on the web since around 1996 following an unfortunate incident with a margarine tub. Since then he’s spread himself between both front- and back-end development projects, and now is Director and Senior Web Developer at edgeofmyseat.com in Maidenhead, UK (GEO: 51.5217, -0.7177). Prior to this, Drew was a Web Developer for Yahoo!, and before that primarily worked as a technical lead within design and branding agencies for clients such as Nissan, Goodyear Dunlop, Siemens/Bosch, Cadburys, ICI Dulux and Virgin.net. Somewhere along the way, Drew managed to get himself embroiled with Dreamweaver and was made an early Macromedia Evangelist for that product. This lead to book deals, public appearances, fame, glory, and his eventual downfall.

Picking himself up again, Drew is now a strong advocate for best practises, and stood as Group Lead for The Web Standards Project 2006-08. He has had articles published by A List Apart, Adobe, and O’Reilly Media’s XML.com, mostly due to mistaken identity. Drew is a proponent of the lower-case semantic web, and is currently expending energies in the direction of the microformats movement, with particular interests in making parsers an off-the-shelf commodity and developing simple UI conventions. He writes here at all in the head and, with a little help from his friends, at 24 ways.

All in the <head>