Posted by Daryl on 11/28/06 23:48

With my content at 800x600 i expect very little scrolling required. I
actually expect the adjust final width to round off at 790 or so so a
maximized window on an 800x600 screen setting should not require scroll.

"Kevin Scholl" <kscholl@comcast.DELETE.net> wrote in message
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> Neredbojias wrote:
>> To further the education of mankind, "Daryl" <lyradf@yahoo.com>
>> vouchsafed:
>>>> What happens if I'm doing more than one thing on my desktop and have
>>>> my browser window set to 650 px wide? Will I have to do a horizontal
>>>> scroll to read each line of text?
>>
>>> Your window will display the left most content and you would have to
>>> scroll to the right to view the rest. Im not concerned about that. That
>>> is pretty typical of all web pages.
>>
>> Au contraire, mon ami. Today's "typical" web page is fluid and text
>> flows with the size of the matte. However, yes, a certain minority
>> percentage is archeolithic.
>
> That's a rather subjective view of "typical". There is no concrete right
> or wrong when it comes to fixed-width vs. fluid.
>
> http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200611/resolution_vs_browser_size_vs_fixed_or_adaptive_width/
>
> That said, the willingness of the OP to allow horizontal scrolling for a
> user running a maximized browser at 800x600 is a bit disconcerting.
>
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