Re: BBC News Website

Pam the goose <stoke@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"ray" <datasmog@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You need a bigger screen or change the resolution to something more
modern.
The new layout is fixed width at 974pixels and centred. It is expected
these days that the majority of people have moved on from the old 800 x
600 screen resolution of early Windows versions. It will display fine
without scroll bars on any reasonably modern laptop.

rofl
You think people get new monitors while the old one, that probably started
life with Windows 3.1, is still w*rking, Ray?

Yes. If the monitor is that old It's probably a bit blurry by now. Not
to mention the envoronmental impact of running old CRT screens.

I bet there's still more than thousands out there! And I'm not referring to
FireBird's!

Not forgetting those that have big monitors and run everything at largest
text size cos their eyesight ain't that good these days ;-)
And that last one applies to me!

The BBC site is a fixed width, it will allways be 974 pixels wide on any
screen no matter how big you make the text.
Try it. All that happens when you make the text bigger is eventually the
page layout breaks and it becomes unreadable anyway.


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