Posted by Harlan Messinger on 01/30/08 21:53

Harlan Messinger wrote:
> Harlan Messinger wrote:
>> mrcakey wrote:
>>> "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> wrote in
>>> message
>>> news:l15oj.518957$kj1.291640@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
>>>> catalyst wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi! I'making a webpage in html+style in css. How to make that this
>>>>> webpage
>>>>> shows similar in all this 800x600, 1024x768...1400x1050 resoultions?
>>>> None of the above. All of the above.
>>>> http://allmyfaqs.net/faq.pl?AnySizeDesign
>>>
>>> Is it me or are you advocating adding browser-sniffing JavaScript to
>>> support Netscape, a browser with approximately 0.5% of the market?
>>>
>>>> My monitor is 1680x1050, and I have two browser windows open
>>>> side-by-each. Or one browser and some other application, maybe my web
>>>> page editor. Screen resolution is unimportant. Think of mobile phones
>>>> and PDAs, too. You site (if a general site) should work on all of them.
>>>
>>> No it shouldn't. It should work on the platforms he chooses to
>>> market to.
>>
>> You mean there are people who come to marketing meetings and say, "Our
>> market shows us that our high-tech molded bicycle seats are popular in
>> the 1400x1050 pixel, 15- to 17-inch screen, maximized browser
>> community, but Brand X seats sell better in the 1024x768 pixel,
>> 19-inch, browser-occupies-only-part-of-the-screen community"?
>
> Besides that, I'm curious why people who are so sure that it isn't worth
> building a more flexible design now don't see why it's even less worth
> building a design that will require a complete overhaul when the
> resolutions are even higher a few years from now. I'm thinking about the
> people who built fixed designs that worked at 800 x 600 several years
> ago and now have a presentation that can't be read on screens with twice
> the pixels in each dimension (text too small or columns too narrow) and
> that create increasing frustration as more and more users try to access
> them (because they see no reason why they shouldn't be able to after
> having shelled out the money for the capability) on cell phones.

I'm wondering if this is the story behind the web page

http://www.jwam.com.au/

being discussed in the thread "Small font on web pages".

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