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To: Robert Treat <[email protected]>
Cc: Mitch Pirtle <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL www <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: "Stretchy" vs. Fixed-width
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:19:21 -0800
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>Whether you "like" it is opinion (highly dependent on the proximity of your
>browser settings to those of the designer in the fixed widht world).
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>Which one is better practice of good web usability is not, it is variable
>width.
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Ahh your second point is still very much an opinion. It doesn't
matter how much you state it as a fact, it is still an opinion.
>variable width <> uncontrolled. take a look at mozilla.org or debian.org, for
>sites that scale very well over several hundread pixel differences in browser
>width.
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True but it still doesn't scale to 1600x1200 and nor should it.
I think it is definately a good idea to allow resizing to a particular
size that is smaller. Mozilla does an excellent job to 640x480.
I think that is a little extreme and that 800x600 is plenty.
>>Anyone can design a layout that stretches to utilize all available
>>screen real estate. But that doesn't mean that the aesthetics or
>>usability remains constant as the layout dramatically changes - it
>>either looks great at larger sizes (and lousy on small ones), or great
>>on small sizes (and lousy on large ones).
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>Again, look at php.net. Aesthetically speaking, it looks great on both small
>and large browser sizes.
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Well actually php.net looks horrible in general but I get your point.
O.k. I have a question, it sounds like everyone is arguing about different
things.
Are we arguing that the website should be fixed-width as in:
A. I am 1024x768 I will not resize PERIOD.
Or:
B. I am 1024x768 I will not resize to smaller than that.
To be honest this whole time I was arguing that we don't need
to scale UP. E.g; we can set the max to 1024x768 if you have a bigger
screen, great but it will still be 1024x768. However if you have a smaller
screen, we will try an accomodate you to a resolution of X.. (my IMHO would
be 800x600).
If I am incorrect on this argument, let me say now that we absolutely need
to allow scaling to smaller resolutions (to a point). Anything else would
be very silly.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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