Posted by Brendan Gillatt on 10/08/07 18:35

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Onideus Mad Hatter wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:49:03 +0100, Brendan Gillatt
> <brendanREMOVETHIS@brendanREMOVETHISgillatt.co.uk> wrote:
>
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>> Brendan Gillatt wrote:
>>> Okay, I'll post some tomorrow. By the way, a portal is probably the
>>> _worst_ design in the history of all time. Essentially all you're doing
>>> is reducing the amount of space available to the user with no benefit.
>
> Actually, you retard, the point of the design is to cater to the
> lowest mainstream resolution while still allowing for a centered
> position on higher resolutions. So you're not really reducing the
> amount of space you have. An alternative design would include two
> base resolutions, say 800x600 and 1024x768+. Another reason why it's
> a good design is that the extra space can be used for ad banners and
> other site tools...not that you would have any fuckin clue about that,
> your sites aren't making you any money. LOL
>
>>> It's not as if a 15" monitor is big enough as it is!
>>>
>> Alrighty, have a look at
>> http://brendangillatt.co.uk/code/portal/
>> Window size small enough for you? I could change two lines of CSS and
>> make it even smaller if you like.
>>
>> How big is that entire page? 716 Bytes. How big would the same thing be
>> in Javascript / Flash? Probably 100 KBytes upwards.
>
> *snicker*
>
> You retard! That won't even work on IE 5 on teh Mac!

And how does that have a higher percentage of users than those which
cannot use flash?

> Not to mention:
> http://www.backwater-productions.net/_test_platform/URAMORON.swf
>
> LOL, you can achieve the same effect in Flash with NO HTML or CSS code
> and it's ONLY 280 bytes...that's a nearly FORTY PERCENT reduction in
> size from yer idiot bloat code!

So, sorry - I did leave the code un-optimised. By changing the names to
single characters and removing whitespace I'd probalby get close

> 100 Kilobytes, what the fuck are you
> thinkin, Sunshine? All you stupid ass gawd damn poser, wannabe,
> college flunkie, halfass retards are all alike...runnin the fuck at
> the mouth about shit you don't know about and then getting BITCH
> SLAPPED for it.

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Brendan Gillatt
brendan {at} brendangillatt {dot} co {dot} uk
http://www.brendangillatt.co.uk
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