Actually, whiskering and fracture are unrelated problems. It only just happens that the common lead-free solders are worse in both regards.
In a sense, you could say that comparing CRT vs. flat-panel is like comparing HDD vs. flash. Both the phosphors in a CRT and the magnetic layers in a HDD are indistinct, continuous surfaces (except for the separation between red/green/blue phosphors in a colour CRT), and the precise location of the scanlines (CRTs don't technically have pixels)/magnetic patterns is incidental. Flat-panel displays and SSDs both have fixed physical addresses, though scaling and wear levelling, respectively, can alter the mapping between physical and logical addresses.
Anyway, I don't hate flat-panel displays for the sole reason of fixed pixels. I just wish more flat-panel displays would provide an option to center smaller resolutions instead of scaling them up.
(I wrote another section, but had to delete it because of the 1K character limit in visitor messages.)
In a sense, you could say that comparing CRT vs. flat-panel is like comparing HDD vs. flash. Both the phosphors in a CRT and the magnetic layers in a HDD are indistinct, continuous surfaces (except for the separation between red/green/blue phosphors in a colour CRT), and the precise location of the scanlines (CRTs don't technically have pixels)/magnetic patterns is incidental. Flat-panel displays and SSDs both have fixed physical addresses, though scaling and wear levelling, respectively, can alter the mapping between physical and logical addresses.
Anyway, I don't hate flat-panel displays for the sole reason of fixed pixels. I just wish more flat-panel displays would provide an option to center smaller resolutions instead of scaling them up.
(I wrote another section, but had to delete it because of the 1K character limit in visitor messages.)