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slow_speed
Aug 21, 2020Aspirant
Poor Resolution On Switch Interface
Does anyone know about the progress of the resolution problem on the switch's interface? If you hadn't noticed, the firmware appears to use an HTML-based inteface thru the browser, but it does no...
- Aug 23, 2020
My comments are only applying the to assumption that the web-based UI of the switch is an html screen. If it isn't then all bets are off.
However, whenever something is going to be rendered in a browser window, I don't understand why standard web page formatting is not used. If it is, then it must conform to W3C standards work correctly across all platforms.
Further, the sub-category of accessibility requires certain functionality. One of these is that zooming keeps all information confined to the side limits of the view window.
One is free to argue all around these issues, but without these standards the who thing breaks down. Having an opinion does not make it fact. The fact remains that zooming should always keep from having a horizontal scroll bar. Period. Within the given standards of present and previous resolutions (which still apply), there remains no excuse.
I have never understood why people want to throw out something because they themselves do not use it. I believe it is insulting to suggest that what others use is not useful. Duplicate what I use before telling me it shouldn't work.
And even then, should you be able to duplicate it, unless you reach my level of expertise, there remains little that can be proved against the facts of my experience.
I just want the obvious fixed.
schumaku
Aug 21, 2020Guru - Experienced User
Have randomly zoomed up some current Netgear switch Web UIs, looks perfectly workable even with just very few lines and extremely large text on a 1920x1024 display (at 100% scaling on a current W10 64bit system), using Chrome, Edge, Firefox .. .
Switch model?
Firmware version?
Browser type and version, platform OS?
Screenshots?
Where exactly (what menu, what view?) do you get horizontal scroll bar?
Any JavaScipt destruction software in place (aka. Internet "security" stuff)?
Ready to me like a problem of some client side scaling settings, e.g. with extremely large fonts, configured to rendering beyond the common 100% (or probably 125% on ultra high density resolution display). So provide scaling settings, too. If there is to much scaling involved on different levels, the Web UI can hardly control the full data path behaviour.
Not sure what this has to do with the subject "poor resolution".
slow_speed
Aug 21, 2020Aspirant
The model number is as noted in the first post. Latest firmware.
I have attached the screenshot. Note the tiny text.
This was taken on Debian 10 with Xfce 4.12 and Firefox Quantum 68.11.0esr running 1024x768 on a 40" screen.
The horizontal scroll bar will appear at any zoom level above this. No web site should ever have one. The page must conform to the standards.
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