Posted by Onideus Mad Hatter on 06/28/05 06:26

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 02:39:32 GMT, kyra <kyra@cotse.com> wrote:

>Onideus Mad Hatter wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 23:40:41 GMT, kyra <kyra@cotse.com> wrote:
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>>
>>>Onideus Mad Hatter wrote:
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>>>>According to my stats there's not a whole lot of people on resolutions
>>>>higher than 1024x768 and the ones that are, are still in close range
>>>>so as not to make any noticeable difference. Anything at, or smaller
>>>>than 1024x768 and it'll look completely flawless, even arbitrary
>>>>widths, such as a windowed screen.
>>>
>>>my screen is 1920 x 1200
>>>1024x768 just looks wrong on here ;)
>>
>>
>> Yeah but I bet you view web pages windowed...otherwise with most sites
>> that'd be a WHOLE lotta white space... o_O
>>
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>> Onideus Mad Hatter
>> mhm ¹ x ¹
>> http://www.backwater-productions.net
>
>not really.. i look at most, including my own full size most of the
>time. thats where you learn to appreciate liquid sites - the ones that
>look the same in any size browser. it takes a decent web designer to
>make a static web.. but it takes a lot more skill to make one thats
>liquid. screens the size of mine, you can really tell the difference and
>the skill

....not really, because currently there is no such thing as a liquid
site. There's liquid text and basic image elements, but that's it.
If you were to go to a "liquid" site right now you'd wind up looking
at a site with iddy bitty tiny images with the page stretched out
REALLY far and you'd lose the 800x600 72 character line length
standard (I forget how the measurement translates in higher
resolutions). Really the idea is that everything should just be
bigger on a higher resolution so you're seeing the site exactly the
way it was intended to be seen. The problem with using 1920x1200 as a
standard base is pretty obvious, starting images off at that size
would result in rather enormous file sizes. Although in 5 to 10 years
I'll probably be using it.

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Onideus Mad Hatter
mhm ¹ x ¹
http://www.backwater-productions.net

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