Posted by Chaddy2222 on 07/02/07 14:34

On Jul 2, 11:59 pm, SpaceGirl <nothespacegirls...@subhuman.net> wrote:
> On Jul 1, 1:23 am, dorayme <doraymeRidT...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
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> > In article
> > <1183236700.730315.163...@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
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> > cwdjrxyz <spamtr...@cwdjr.info> wrote:
> > > Many monitors for PCs now are set for well over
> > > 1000 px wide, and some even add a second monitor to extend the width
> > > range. On the other extreme,
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> > What others have said. You have to be very careful not to assume
> > too much about what arrangements users will have. As cwdjrxyz
> > reminds here, some people can have very wide screens. On Macs for
> > quite some time, one can organise monitors as one big screen (by
> > not ticking the mirror option). One can have monitors on top of
> > each each other too (Try it in Mac preferences, you folk with
> > Macs and more than one monitor). My personal preference is the
> > second of the two screenshots at:
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> >http://tinyurl.com/35z3kp
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> > --
> > dorayme
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> Yep. My Mac is arranged like this:
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> 19" LCD (1280 x 1024) landscape (video preview)
> 30" ACD (2560 x 1600) landscape (workspace)
> 19" LCD (1024 x 1280) portrait (web pages, reference art etc)
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> My desktop is stretched across all 3 desktops, so as far as a web page
> is concerned desktop size is irrelevant.
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> However... I build all my sites in Flash, and aim for full clarity at
> 800x600, but they expand to fill whatever space the browser makes
> available.
I guess with useing flash for the entire site you would not have any
issue with content not looking identicle in all browsers.
It should also be noted that the new W3C web accessibility guidelines
2.0 (it's in draft format) don't require transcriptions of video and
stuff as much as the 1.0 guidelines did. Personally though I am not
sure of what guidelines i'll use when the 2.0 stuff comes out, becuase
they seam to have gone backwards with regards too CSS support, I would
have thaught the 2.0 guidelines would have been all for CSS. Although
for what it's werth they might as well be written in some other
language as no-one seams to understand them anyway.
Having said that I might have another more detailed read of them in
the next day or so as they did not really seam that bad when I went
over them a few weeks ago. But then I read Joe Clarks stuff on the
subject and it kind of changed my mind again.

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Regards Chad. http://freewebdesign.awardspace.biz

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