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From: Ann Miner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, August 06, 1998 06:58 AM
Subject: WC:>: Graphic Safe Area
>I've been looking at the Yale Style Manual's dimensions for
"Graphic Safe Areas" of different monitor size and browser
combinations. I would like to hear what everyone else is using
for guidelines (I know this has been discussed before ... has
anyone changed their guidelines as sales of larger-screen
monitors increases?) I'm particular troubled by the 295 pixel
"maximum safe height" which allows for all of the browser tool
bars. I'd like to hear current thoughts on this subject. Thanks!
I use the Yale Style Manual
http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/contents.html as well. I use 595 pixels
wide as the max width.
They recommend 295 pixels for height (and their examples show that this is
correct.) I don't worry about that for most pages, since people know to
scroll. But opening pages, esp. navigational table of contents frames,
should fit within 300 pixels.
Since I work on 19" monitor set at 1024x768, I made up a page that has a
horizontal and vertical bar. It's actually a table with the height and width
(no graphics, it opens faster.)
This creates a table cell that is 595 pixels wide, 295 pixels tall. I then
resize a browser window to that size.
<table width=595 height=295 border=0 bgcolor="#FFcc33"><tr><td>Max display
width for 14" screens<br>595 pixels wide<br> 295 pixels
tall</td></tr></table>
This table creates a thin line that I can use to size my browser to the
right width.
<table width=595 height=1 border=0
bgcolor="#FFcc33"><tr><td></td></tr></table>
I use the gold color because it can be left for quite some time during the
development and it looks good; others think it's some sort of decoration.
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