X-Original-To: pgsql-www-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D342CD1D8F3; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 14:25:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 39000-08; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 10:25:18 -0400 (AST) Received: from avalanche.derxis.com (avalanche.netmar.com [198.69.224.177]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C47DFD1B498; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 10:25:14 -0400 (AST) Received: from 127.0.0.1 (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by reinject.technically-sound.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 8C3E8401E; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 09:25:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from www.derxis.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by avalanche.derxis.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 8F2A8400D; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 09:25:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from 209.198.116.24 (SquirrelMail authenticated user smsimms) by www.derxis.com with HTTP; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 09:25:02 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <1429.209.198.116.24.1074349502.squirrel@www.derxis.com> In-Reply-To: <200401161125.54412.josh@agliodbs.com> References: <400804AF.8050502@digitaldistribution.com> <20040116125152.R13900@ganymede.hub.org> <200401161125.54412.josh@agliodbs.com> Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 09:25:02 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: And now for an example of a different style of From: "Steve Simms" To: "Josh Berkus" Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" , "Justin Clift" , "PostgreSQL Web Development Mailing List" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.1-2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200401/182 X-Sequence-Number: 3421 Josh Berkus said: > The trick is that a fixed width site needs to be usable at 800x600 resolution, > since this is the resolution of 40% of the monitors in American businesses, > the last time anyone did stats on it (2000, I think). CSS can provide for this with the concept of a max-width attribute (name might be slightly off). You can design a variable-width page that will work on 800x600, and have it expand on larger browsers, not to exceed a certain point, so that you don't end up with paragraphs of text on a single line at 1600x1200. The caveat is that I'm not sure how well browsers support this. I know that some do, and some don't, as always. Depending on the distribution of support, this might be enough to satisfy those that want fixed-width and those that want variable-width. Steve Simms Database Developer & Administrator Medical Media Systems, Inc.