It's also pointless because web page backgrounds are so 1990s.


On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 6:39 PM, David Kaiser <[email protected]> wrote:

> This is pointless.  You're not ever going to get a browser canvas to be
> the same width as the browser window.  (Unless you toggle the browser
> into full-screen mode)
>
> Unless you know exactly how many pixels the managed window decorations
> are, i.e. the window border, the title bar, the width of the scrollbar,
> the number of toolbars the user has enabled, the height of the tab
> strip, etc.  it's just an exercise in uselessness to get all careful
> with sizing background images "perfectly".
>
> If it really is the end of the world that the graphic not be cut in half,
> you may want to check into some CSS magic - I don't know if there is a
> way to specify that you don't want a graphic to repeat within a
> specific container, and then you can programmatically fill the canvas
> with those containers using some Javascript. Of course, I've never
> tried this, so I don't know if you could do that.
>
> My recommendation is to scale your background image to a 1x1 pixel image,
> then it will never be cut in half.
>
>
> On 11/20/2009, "Mark Teixeira" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >32 x 24 should work too. Since all those resolutions are a 4x3 ratio, just
> >take the GCF of all the horizontal resolutions and the GCF of the vertical
> >resolutions. Different borders could change that though.
> >
> >On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Peter Manis <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> 8x8 pixels
> >>
> >> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Paul Saenz <[email protected]
> >wrote:
> >>
> >>> This is a math problem.
> >>> I want to make a browser background tile.
> >>> I want to find out what size I need to make
> >>> the tile so that it will fit exactly into 4 different
> >>> screen resolution sizes. The sizes are 640X480
> >>> 800x600, 1024x768 and 1280x960
> >>>
> >>> what size tile will fit perfectly in each of those
> >>> resolution so that they will all be whole tiles, and
> >>> there will be no tiles that are cut in half or whatever?
> >>>
> >>> If you could also supply the equation, that would be
> >>> helpful, because then if I have to make adjustments for
> >>> boarders or plug in different resolutions, then I can.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>> Paul
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>> LinuxUsers mailing list
> >>> [email protected]
> >>> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> LinuxUsers mailing list
> >> [email protected]
> >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
> >>
> >>
> _______________________________________________
> LinuxUsers mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
>
_______________________________________________
LinuxUsers mailing list
[email protected]
http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers

Reply via email to