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We’re almost ready to roll out the reason I’ve been talking about non-standards-compliant browsers so much lately.

Please feel free to take a look. I’ve still got some fine-tuning bits I want to sort out, but if something looks remarkably out of place, let me know (and please also tell me what browser and version you were using, on which operating system.)

Update: Just sat through the critique with the various company officers. Basically, never mind that nice, bold, fills-your-screen size, we’re going to be gutless and make sure it fits on the screen of someone whose monitor resolution is set to 800×600. So it will be a cramped little box adrift on a sea of blank space, if you’ve got a decent monitor. Can I tell you how much I wish I could scale graphics according to browser window size? At least they didn’t insist on anything that will prevent it from validating.

Update 2: I’ve started the shrinking. Needless to say, there’s some image resizing in my future. Can I just leave them all in the dryer overnight?

Now playing: You Don’t Know from Monday Morning Cold by Erin McKeown

Posted by pjm on May 11, 2004 10:57 AM |

Comments

I have to say, I agree with making pages that are capable of fitting in a teeny window. I have a 1200x1600 monitor, but I prefer my browser window to use less than half that width and despise sites that want to use more than that. That’s why I make my sites as flexible as possible.

Of course it’s not always possible. Ahh, the joys of web development.

Posted by: Laurabelle | May 12, 2004 10:51 PM

I wish I could just make them scale, so they’d fit no matter what the size of the browser window.

It’s easy to do with a page built to scroll vertically, or text-heavy (like this one.) You just adjust for possible widths and make sure important stuff doesn’t vanish below the fold on too many monitors. The browser adjusts the line-wrap and you’re golden.

The problem with this design (and some other front pages I’ve worked on in this job) is that the (very talented) designers I’m working with produce designs with both a top and a bottom, not to mention right and left edges, and it’s graphic-heavy rather than wrappable text. Suddenly you’re expanding and contracting in two dimensions, and the images aren’t changing size.

So, I’m crossing my fingers and holding my breath for pervasive support of scalable vector graphics. (I already had to use a CSS hack to hide the PNG with variable transparency from IE…)

Posted by: pjm | May 13, 2004 11:03 AM

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