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| Registered: March 19, 2007 |  Posts: 301 |
| | Posted: | | | | Maybe, I missed this somewhere. Are there any plans towards reformatting the website for widescreen monitors? I bought one last fall and been wondering about it.  |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,494 |
| | Posted: | | | | Meaning the screen size of i.e. 2048 x 1536 would it be compatible for Profiler to be displayed on your monitor?.. Sure.. anything larger than 800 x 600 (minimum) is their requirements.. | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 3,436 |
| | Posted: | | | | The problem with wide websites is that the lines of text get very long and therefore paragraphs hard to read. That was the first problem I found after I bought my widescreen monitor with 1920x1200 resolution... I believe to have read somewhere that approx. 80 characters line-length is most poleasing to the human eye (and brain).
Maybe Ken can fill the space on the sides with something more interesting that the blue background, but line length is just fine as it is now. | | | Achim [諾亞信； Ya-Shin//Nuo], a German in Taiwan.
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| Registered: March 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,018 |
| | Posted: | | | | I agree. Invelos should cater for everyone, not just to people blessed with a widescreen monitor. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,394 |
| | Posted: | | | | I agree, too. Even though I have a wide screen monitor at home, I frequently look at the website here at work where I don't have a ws monitor.
Achim (ya_shin) is right about long lines of text being hard to read. That's one reason why newspapers and magazines are printed in multiple columns. The first time I opened a website which expanded to fill the screen on my ws monitor, I thought I was watching a tennis match from the net -- actually having to move my head from side to side to follow the text. I much prefer the 80-character (or less) line if I have to read something. | | | Another Ken (not Ken Cole)
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 1,029 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quick tip for users with widescreen monitors: you don't have to maximize your browser window.  So yes, there is no need to programatically limit the column width of the posts, because you can size the browser window. Quoting ya_shin: Quote:
Maybe Ken can fill the space on the sides with something more interesting that the blue background I certainly hope not. I like the functional and non-gimmicky look & feel of the forum. | | | | Matthias |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,796 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting goodguy: Quote:
Quick tip for users with widescreen monitors: you don't have to maximize your browser window. So yes, there is no need to programatically limit the column width of the posts, because you can size the browser window.
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Maybe Ken can fill the space on the sides with something more interesting that the blue background
I certainly hope not. I like the functional and non-gimmicky look & feel of the forum. A picture of Brooke Burke lying very seductively adds to my screen viewing pleasure.. | | | We don't need stinkin' IMDB's errors, we make our own.
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 630 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting goodguy: Quote:
Quick tip for users with widescreen monitors: you don't have to maximize your browser window. So yes, there is no need to programatically limit the column width of the posts, because you can size the browser window.
I completely agree. Actually I find the current fixed with layout extremely annoying. When I resize a window it's not because I want extra space around the content, nor is it to have some of the content hidden forcing me to use a horizontal scrollbar. It is surprisingly enough because I either want the content next to something else I am working with, or because I want to change the line length of the text to make it easier to read. Remember: If you use the maximize button, then you need a bigger monitor. Even an application like Visual Studio I hardly ever maximize, even though I only have a 21" WS monitor (+ a 20" secondary, but VS is typically on the primary monitor). | | | Regards
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,759 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Chazcdc54: Quote:
Maybe, I missed this somewhere. Are there any plans towards reformatting the website for widescreen monitors? I bought one last fall and been wondering about it. On all my computers, wide screen or not, my browser window is never full screen. |
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