Re: 800x600, 1024x768...1400x1050 res.

Harlan Messinger wrote:
Harlan Messinger wrote:
mrcakey wrote:
"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:l15oj.518957$kj1.291640@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
catalyst wrote:

Hi! I'making a webpage in html+style in css. How to make that this webpage
shows similar in all this 800x600, 1024x768...1400x1050 resoultions?
None of the above. All of the above.
http://allmyfaqs.net/faq.pl?AnySizeDesign

Is it me or are you advocating adding browser-sniffing JavaScript to support Netscape, a browser with approximately 0.5% of the market?

My monitor is 1680x1050, and I have two browser windows open
side-by-each. Or one browser and some other application, maybe my web
page editor. Screen resolution is unimportant. Think of mobile phones
and PDAs, too. You site (if a general site) should work on all of them.

No it shouldn't. It should work on the platforms he chooses to market to.

You mean there are people who come to marketing meetings and say, "Our market shows us that our high-tech molded bicycle seats are popular in the 1400x1050 pixel, 15- to 17-inch screen, maximized browser community, but Brand X seats sell better in the 1024x768 pixel, 19-inch, browser-occupies-only-part-of-the-screen community"?

Besides that, I'm curious why people who are so sure that it isn't worth building a more flexible design now don't see why it's even less worth building a design that will require a complete overhaul when the resolutions are even higher a few years from now. I'm thinking about the people who built fixed designs that worked at 800 x 600 several years ago and now have a presentation that can't be read on screens with twice the pixels in each dimension (text too small or columns too narrow) and that create increasing frustration as more and more users try to access them (because they see no reason why they shouldn't be able to after having shelled out the money for the capability) on cell phones.

I'm wondering if this is the story behind the web page

http://www.jwam.com.au/

being discussed in the thread "Small font on web pages".
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