Hi, > I hereby publicly declare that my days of complaining to website > authors that I cannot view their site at 800x600, and then opening my > big mouth about other dubious issues I notice on their site, are now > over. [snip]
I'm astonished at the tone - although not especially surprised by the content - of their reply. Even if they thought you were being the biggest pain in history, they should remain polite when replying. Their arguments don't hold water of course; but they're clearly not receptive to any suggestion that they might change. I find it particularly interesting that they justify heavy scripting to "cater to the widest audience possible" but they are quite willing to discount anyone with a screen resolution (or window size) below 800x600...! http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2006/January/res.php still shows 800x600 as 21% of the market. I doubt that's 21% of people actually running that resolution, instead I suspect it's a proportion of users with non-maximised screens as well as those with the actual resolution. Ben [sorry if this came through twice - trying to get Gmail to use a second email address...] -- --- <http://www.200ok.com.au/> --- The future has arrived; it's just not --- evenly distributed. - William Gibson ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************