Windows Phone Thoughts: VGA & Pocket Internet Explorer Pixel Doubling Explained

"A lot of people have been discussing the problem of pixel doubling in Pocket Internet Explorer (PIE) on current VGA devices in the default SE VGA mode (that is, not using a tool like ozVGA or SE_VGA - please read, for example, mr_Ray's explanation of the meaning of the different VGA modes FirstLoox. The problem is a very interesting one; therefore, I've decided to make some experiments. I've captured several screenshots of text on screen in several resolutions to see how the image stretching / double pixeling algorithm works in PIE. I'd say it was certainly worth the effort - now, I know a lot more about how PIE works (and this info has never been published before either)!"

Menneisyys has posted an interesting article in our forums that explains what you're seeing when you browse the Web on a VGA device - if things don't look quite right, the reason why is Pocket Internet Explorer scales the size of graphics up 200%. This causes no end of frustrating for Web site owners because suddenly our carefully designed mobile sites look terrible! :? For more details on why this happens, check out the article written by Menneisyys and comment in the original thread.