"Beman Dawes" <bdawes@acm.org> writes:
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On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 23:33:31 -0600, Rene Rivera wrote
Allen wrote:
The width is fixed, I think that's bad.
Why?
I agree with Allen -- fixed width is bad. Basically it wastes space on my monitor and forces me to scroll when I shouldn't have to.
Also some people use quite low resolutions and large fonts, and don't want to have to scroll left and right.
I've got a new Dell Inspiron 700m. The resolution is 1280 X 800. With that wide aspect ratio, I want a web page to use the full width.
That's weird. A wide aspect ratio like that seems like it gives me more incentive to split the screen into two narrower areas and put a browser window in each. We break our lines in email at around 76 columns for a reason: anything wider gets hard to read. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com