Re: 800x600

:::Jerry:::: wrote in message
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> "Krustov" <krusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> www.ganjahost.co.uk/800.jpg
>>
>> Would you say this wording is about right without being too
>> aggressive .
>>
>> When you consider that even the cheapest base systems have come with
>> a 17 inch monitor for a couple of years - why do people still cater
>> for 800x600 users unless they enjoy the pain and enjoy putting
>> restrictions on themselves .
>
> It's not the monitor screen size, it's the size at which people might
> well have the browser window set to open at. The two are quite
> different.
>
> If you are not authoring a totally flexible screen layout it's far
> better to opt for a 800x600 res' than one that is higher and
> introduce side scrolling.

But it's very wasteful of space if many of your readers will use a larger
browser window and a lot of the space is then blank.

On a site that includes photos, these are non-scalable so if the browser
window shrinks you end up with a photo with one word per line (or even in
the worst case, one *character* per line!) alongside it. I've often thought
that it would be most useful if all browsers had a way of querying the
browser window width and height, so you could reduce the size of pictures
using JavaScript if the size drops below some threshold level preventing you
ending up with absurdly short lines of text.

If you design for the lowest common denonimator then you are denying
yourself a lot of additional capabilities such as sidebars for navigation
(either as a separate frame or as a table within the main page) because this
occupies useful space that could be used for the body of the page if you are
displaying the page on a crippled (*) browser.


(*) Which I arbitrarily define as less that 800x600 ;-)


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