[WEB4LIB] Re: E: Sort of an easy question - how to write a page that fits at

[Christopher LeBlanc]

Thomas Dowling wrote:
> > One thing you could try, would be to make the table 600 pixels wide.
> > That way it would account for the scroll bars and anything else that
> I can't answer for most people, but there are times when I give my eyes a
> break, zoom up my text size, and use a window about 1200px wide.  I get
> more than a little ticked off at sites with 600px tables that fit about
> five words into each line of text while leaving three inches of white
> space on the right side of my monitor.

Sorry about that, I keep thinking in terms of Opera, which will let you
adjust your zoom.  If you set it to 200%, then everything, text,
pictures, tables, everything, is zoomed up.  That means that everything
still looks like it did at 100% (everything in the same places) but they
are all bigger.  I know that Netscape or IE does not support something
like this.

> I tell ya, it isn't PDAs that are going to kill pixel-based screen design.
> It will be 21" 1600x1200 monitors hitting the $600US price point.  That
> will nicely do in any GIFs of words in the Right Fonts standing in for
> real headers, too.

Let's face it, most people are still not going to have 21" monitors. 
Most people are going to get the plain-jane 15" that comes standard with
the system, and a few will go for the 17" ones, but they will usually
end up using those at 800x600.  Remember, in Libraries and in
government, we have to aim for the lowest common denominator.  That is
still 640x480 which represents >75% of computer users.  At least now we
can use millions of colors rather than 256.
 
Christopher LeBlanc
Lamar University Library
Beaumont, Texas