Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 05/06/06 04:23

Blinky the Shark wrote:
> Jonathan N. Little wrote:
>> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>>> Domestos wrote:
>>>>> I never do either of those things on my online desktop.
>>>> So how do you browse then...
>>> Quite comfortably, with my browser(s) using about the right-hand thwo
>>> thirds of my screen (full height) and email/news apps using about the
>>> left half (full height). They overlap a bit, but both modes (browsing
>>> and communications) are always visible for a one-click focus switch from
>>> one to the other.
>>>
>>> Similarly, when I reply to a Usenet post, my editor opens up on the
>>> right half, with my news client still readable on the left. See:
>>>
>>> http://blinkynet.net/stuff/comp/splits.jpg
>>>
>>> You'll notice the title bar for my email client at the top of the screen
>>> above my news client window.
>>>
>>> Nothing *ever* "cascaded"; rarely anything other than watching a film on
>>> DVD ever full-screened -- the two choices that you apparently think are
>>> all that one can do because you've seen little buttons for them.
>>>
>>>
>> I really

missing word "DON'T"

>>browse *fullscreen* either with multiple apps laid out with a
>
> Really?
>
>> bit of overlap. You do your site a disservice making such narrow
>> assumptions on how visitors will view it.
>
> I do?
>

Sorry bad snip! Comment direction intended for Domestos, maybe I should
top post! ;-)

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Jonathan
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