Re: screen resolution solutions

salmobytes wrote:
someone said: something about "not serious"
and "why no url"

General case discussion section:
Hans Weilenmann has a nice site where he displays the best
sharp-focus, high-detail close-up photos (of trout flies)
on the net. But because 60% of all users view from 17"
monitors at 768 pixels wide, he has to keep the images small.
On his site you can click any individual image in order
to see a larger version, but that is a giant annoyance to
the ever-growing segment of power users who have 1024 pixels wide
or better.

A better (more intelligent) web-solution would provide some kind
of a mode-toggle switch on each page, where the user could
(in effect) click once to set a session parameter, and a cookie,
for future visits, and see the high resolution images without
clicking twice a thousand times over. Not providing that level
of user-customization is an unnecessary and annoying compromise.

There's nothing wrong with that, but the resolution of the user's screen is only one factor in the user's preference in that case. Likewise, I can set up my e-mail clients to display a preview pane or not, and I can configure my text editor to show tabs at the top or bottom for navigating among my open documents, or I can have a list of them open in a pane at the left or right side, or both.

Whatever you do, don't assume that the user, especially the one with high resolution and a big screen, wants to have his browser covering his entire viewport. There's a reason why modern computer UIs allow multiple windows to be open at the same time.
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