Re: Determining Screen Resolution

by Gregor Pirnaver <gregor.pirnaver(at)email.si>

Date:	Wed, 21 Feb 2001 11:00:54 +0100
To:	thewolves(at)bigfoot.com, Larry Coats <lcoats(at)gte.net>, Regina Fuchs <rfuchs(at)lanl.gov>
Cc:	hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
References:	thewebsons lanl gte
	todo: View Thread, Original

On Wednesday 21 February 2001 09:07 Larry Coats wrote:
> Well, I can only repeat that percentage widths are great
> for fitting text onto smaller screens, but they don't
> work so well for larger screens. A width of, say, 90%,
> works very well at 640x480 or 800x600 on 15" monitors,
> but it's quite hard to read when sprawled out the 90%
> width of a 1280x1024 screen on a 21" monitor. What we
> need is percentage width combined with a max width (eg.,
> 90% width but no wider than 800 pixels). I believe that
> CSS-2 provides a max-width attribute for doing exactly
> this, but browser support isn't there yet.

Don't you realize they could have a very good reason for=20
maximizing their browsing window even at large resolutions?


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