Posted by Michael Fesser on 10/25/07 17:37

..oO(Sanders Kaufman)

>"Michael Fesser" <netizen@gmx.de> wrote in message
>news:5ac1i356trbl2n8vmfkuvt5v9ks9m7uch1@4ax.com...
>> .oO(Sanders Kaufman)
>
>>>In one old app, I checked that setting because I knew some OLD people who
>>>use 640x480 would be on the site.
>>
>> What does the screen res tell you about the size of the browser window
>> and its viewport? Exactly nothing.
>
>(You're really in tantrum mode today, aintcha?)

No, just being realistic.

>For one thing - it tells you that the viewable browser window maxes out at
>640x480.

In most cases it will, but it doesn't have to. The virtual desktop is
much bigger, not to mention multi-head setups. And even with a maximized
browser on a single screen it tells you nothing about the viewport size.
There can be tool bars, side bars, there is the chrome etc.

Screen res was and is irrelevant.

>> I don't do any sniffing at all. I write flexible HTML and if I want to
>> improve the appearance on PDAs (until now it wasn't really necessary),
>
>Wow - HTML that looks as good on a big-screen tv as it does on a cell-phone.
>You should patent that process.

Not necessary, all good authors already know that. Naked HTML always
looks similar anyway, lists, headings etc. And CSS can be done in a
media-dependent way. A properly structured HTML document can look good
even on a very small screen and in a linearized way. Maybe you want to
check Opera's SSR (small screen rendering) feature to get an impression
of what a site might look like on a PDA, either as-is or with a special
handheld stylesheet.

The point is not to look the same on a PDA (which is impossible), but to
look OK and - even more important - to be accessible and usable.

Micha

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