Re: Width sizing for a Mac

Another note on Macs.  The Mac is very honest about it's dealings with
humans.  If you have speakable items turned on, the Mac compliant browsers
will not try and cover that little window.  If you are using folder tabs on
the bottom of the screen, browsers will try and avoid them.  If the machine
is in simple finder mode or child restricted mode then three areas of the
screen are off limits; left edge, bottom edge and right edge, the width of
the longest named drive.   The browsers can also be forced to not cover the
drives on the right side by default in system 7.6 and up.  So if a browser
window does not have code to capture the whole screen there will be always
instances for windows to not be the size you expect.  Most Mac users are a
more enlightened bunch when it comes to the idiosyncrasies of browser
windows.

No Mac comes with a 13" screen anymore, iMacs are 15" and Apple supports
from 512*384 for SEs, Pluses and such up to 1600*1200.  They also have a
22" Landscape LCD monitor for true 2 page side by side screen with the
desktop still visible on the right.


As the words of Rob Atkinson fell from above I was tickled at 7:28 AM -0600
on 7/16/02:

>Hello all,
>
>I'm having a new design put together and I want to make sure I
>get the page width correct. That is, I want to avoid having a
>bottom scroll bar show up.
>
>For a screen size of 640x480 I had understood 580px was the max.
>size to go. Not using or having access to a Mac I've never known
>for sure. With the advancements in technology and pricing for
>Monitors these days, I feel confident in designing a page that
>fits in an 800x600 as a base size. May or may not be true, but
>that's what I going with.
>
>So, I would like to ask those who use a Mac, any OS, to have a
>look at this page:
>
>http://www.potentproducts.com/new.htm
>
>which is an image set at a width of 770px and see if they get a
>bottom scroll bar. If anyone knows for sure, what size to go with
>or what percentage of screen size works all the time, I would
>greatly appreciate it.
>
>Once I know for sure, slice & dice of the image can begin and
>turn the image into HTML.
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>Website Rob
>Helping people create a Potent Web Site

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