It sounds like your client simply has their monitor set to the wrong video mode, i.e. a 4:3 mode such as 1600x1200. If so, they will see this stretching in everything they do, not just web browsing. It's the same thing you see on so many widescreen TVs that are being used to watch conventional 4:3 television - stretch city.
Here is a good test: Have your client view the "rose0" image in the browser directly: http://staff.reynolds.edu/mcline/images/rose0.gif If that image is stretched, then it's the monitor resolution. In that case, there is nothing you can do on your website to work around it. Instead, help your client set the monitor resolution properly. Find out the native resolution of the monitor and make sure their operating system's display control panel is set to that resolution. Feel free to drop me a note offlist with any related questions. -Mike > From: Kimberly Batteau > > This may be OT; I hope not; I hope there is a CSS solution. > > I built this site http://staff.reynolds.edu/mcline/index.html > and tested it using "standard-sized" monitors, perhaps 16 or 17 inch. > > My client recently bought a 19" flat screen monitor & > everything on this new monitor is stretched horizontally to > make it fit into the full width (which is actually about > 16"). This stretching occurs in IE7, Opera9 > > Surprisingly, not all of the background image ( > http://staff.reynolds.edu/mcline/bgs/trial10.jpg) for the > home page is used. > Even though the image is over 16.5 inches wide, the browsers > use about 14.3inches of the width and stretch it out to 16". > > The best example of the stretching at the bottom of this page > http://staff.reynolds.edu/mcline/pages/myart.html , where the > disk should be circular, but appears to be quite ovate on the > wide monitor. > > Admittedly, I am not a CSS guru and this site is not a > stellar example of CSS, but is there some to use CSS to > compensate for this? ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
