On 06/08/08 13:01 (GMT+0100) Dave Goodchild apparently typed: > Hi all. I have mocked up an elastic layout at the following site:
> http://s172075788.websitehome.co.uk/stage/ > ...following some sound advice I have not enforced a font size, allowing the > user to view the site through their default or change font-size as required. > However, a larger font sizes on 600x800 the content expands past the browser > window, and I do want to set a max-width to that screen size as I know that > doesn't work in IE and I also want to cater for larger resolutions without > the wrapper appearing small and isolated. > Am I going down the right path? Any suggestions at this point, as we are in > demo and firm commitments to the design have yet to be made! Others are quick to condemn horizontal scrollbars, but I find small ones, particularly when the result is the full real content remains narrow enough to fit in a full "800px", is in reality no problem at all. Don't forget that at 800x600 with IE resizer sizes larger than medium you're dealing with quite large sizes in most cases. At only "larger", the default size is up to a nominal 14pt, which at the default 96 DPI on a true 16" diagonal 4:3 display is actually more than 20pt in real size. On a true 14" diagonal 4:3 display it's still more than 17.5pt. On your page at "larger" I see an minute scroll that results in no cut off content. At "largest" on a 16" display the default is up to 16pt nominal, which is 23pt real, and on the 14" 20pt real. Even then your real content fits, though the ad space does push out right an inch or so. I wouldn't think any user would consider that a problem. Remember too that 800x600 is a small and dwindling percentage of users. It wouldn't surprise me to see Vista released defaulting to 1024x768, with 800x600 possibly no longer supported. I went into stores recently looking at what was available in laptops. Probably at least 90% of what I saw was widescreen, mostly WXGA (1280x800 native), with a few at 1440x900, 1680x1050 and 1920x1200. Even Sony's little 11.1" natives to 1280x800. No more than 1 or 2 per store were 1024x768, and none were less. Only the smaller 4:3 flat panel displays, 15" or less, have a 1024x768 resolution. The big sellers seem to be larger, 17" and up, and most of them native at 1280x1024. As laptops have been outselling desktops for some time, and the big selling flat panel desktop screens are mostly 1280 wide, 1280 wide is what you can expect more and more of your audience to consist of. -- "Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up." Galatians 6:9 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
