Re: screen resolution solutions

On Jan 21, 2:49 am, Andy Dingley <ding...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hans Weilenmann has a nice site where he displays the best
sharp-focus, high-detail close-up photos (of trout flies)

URL? It's not obviously Googleable (HW is evidently well known for
his work, but less so for his own site)
http://www.danica.com/flytier/

Hans' "large" images are only 600 pixels wide--he's trying to
accomodate everybody.
Closeup images of flies look a heck of a lot better at 700 pixels
wide.
On high resolution monitors with high-speed connections, 800 pixels
is spectacular, by comparison. Trying to serve everybody all at once
with 600 pixels wide is an annoying compromise.


But because 60% of all users view from 17"
monitors at 768 pixels wide,

It's several years since that has been even approximately true.

Not according to w3c They currently show 54%
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_display.asp


That's a ghastly page. It's particularly bad on a FF window under
890px wide.

Yes indeed. I said it needed a lot of work.
My job is to implement what the "graphics artist" sends.
I had that site looking OK at high resolution, but it was (as you
said)
ghastly at low resolution. I have a long history with code in
general,
but only a few months experience with css and websites at this point.
I'll get there.

Finally:
I originally asked if anybody knew of any "major" websites that
offered mode changes, in order to service different screen
resolutions.
I got a few helpful suggestions and lots of typical usenet hostility.

I'm beginning to think the idea of "mode change" toggles on every page
is NOT
appropriate for most websites, but I STILL think it's a good idea
for sites (like Hans Wilenmann's) that are primarily image display
sites.

......if I've got a high resolution wide-screen monitor, attached to a
zippy
connection, I don't want see 600 pixel wide images as the "big" image.
Worse yet, I don't want to have to click twice to see that.

Toggling image sizes on the fly is NOT something you would do with
css.
I never said it was.

But ALSO swapping css--when making those mode changes--does make sense
to me, in certain special cases, like sites that specialize in high-
resolution, sharp-focus
images. I like to try new things. I thought I might get some helpful
suggestions
here. Actually I did. Along with the usual crap.

.

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