I guess I can explain that. If the site _is_ fit to a certain size, on a "big screen" you have the option to enlarge the window; on a small screen, you don't. That doesn't mean you should design to fit a full screen, as there are other factors, such as people with disabilities or poor eyesight, as one poster pointed out. 620 seems to be a good page width. It fits any browser running on a 640x480 screen, and it's a comfortable page width for reading -- about the size of a paperback book page, I think. -- Alexander Staubo http://www.mop.no/~alex/ "He won a first at Oxford, squandered three fortunes, made love to a thousand women, imbibed strange drugs, sold his soul for Rock 'n' Roll, almost pipped Einstein for the Nobel Prize, was barred from every Chinese noodle parlour in West London and died penniless, at a Hastings boarding-house in his ninetieth year." --Robert Rankin, _The Book of Ultimate Truths_
-----Original Message----- From: cg@cdegroot.com [mailto:cg@cdegroot.com] Sent: 15. juli 1999 00:07 To: Alexander Staubo; zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Text won't Wrap on Zope site
alex@mop.no said:
It seems the site in general is tailored to an 800x600 resolution -- which isn't a high resolution by most standards today.
Which is something I never understood. I run on a 1024x768 screen, but that doesn't mean that all my Netscape windows are full-screen. 648x743 seems to be the size of the day on my laptop.
Designing pages for a screen size shows that you actually were designing a paper brochure - backwards thinking ;-)
-- Cees de Groot http://www.cdegroot.com <cg@cdegroot.com>