On 27 Nov 98, Bruce Young wrote:
> Also I don't see that using more of the screen, if it were available, is
> necessarily a good thing or something to hope for in the future. I like
> the way I can have many browser windows open at once and position them
> around the screen.
You make good points. The physical size of the monitor is all but totally
irrelevant to Web page coding considerations, because we still have
absolutely no idea what resolution our users have those monitors set to,
whether they're windowing their browsers, and so on.
My ATI card, for instance, lets me set my video to just about any
configuration you could imagine: I can set the "resolution" and "desktop
area" to different values, and simply mouse my way around to the areas
that may be "off-screen" as a result. So I could have my resolution at, say
800x600, but my screen area at 1600x1200. This effectively emulates a
20"+ monitor in a 15" box. Except that not all the page is visible at once.
Well anyway, enough about ATI cards :) The important point here is that
we shouldn't be coding with specific hardware configurations in mind in the
first place. If we stick to relative page/table widths rather than fixed
ones, the issue becomes moot. Because if a page is set to display at,
say, "85%", then it will occupy about 85% of *any* screen it's on.
Theoretically :)
Of course it is still sometimes necessary to use fixed widths, to a point.
For example, graphics obviously cannot be scaled relatively. (Though it
sure would be nice if they could.) As has been discussed here on WC here
a few times before, the maximum practical width for a graphic (or table)
seems to be about 540 pixels. Wider than that and at least some of your
users will be scrolling horizontally.
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