Comments for Why don't more websites fit in an 800x600 screen resolution?

Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2007-09-24

2007-09-25T04:25:56Z

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It's an IE7 feature.

Leo

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Comment from Cassandra on 2007-09-23

2007-09-23T18:55:57Z

Please tell me where this IE's Zoom feature is? What do you have to turn on to make it work? I have IE6, I'm guessing it's not automatic.

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Comment from Michael Horowitz on 2007-05-06

2007-05-06T22:17:09Z

Sometimes, instead of non-wrappable text, it is images on the page that cause the horizontal scrolling at 800x600.

One of my websites, nypc.org has a header image that is 927 pixels wide. However, I use JavaScript to resize this image down to 700 pixels wide so there is no horizontal scrolling at 1024x768.

The script is viewable in the page source, but this is the basic idea:

if (document.body.clientWidth

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2007-05-05

2007-05-06T00:56:59Z

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Ed: funny you should raise that. I have the task bar on the left on my Windows
Vista laptop for exactly that reason.

But the problem's actually worse than that. Many people don't run the browser
full screen. So no matter what your screen resolution is, the amount of it
allocated to the browser window is often much less. VERY difficult for web
designers to account for :-).

Leo
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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2007-05-05

2007-05-06T00:51:19Z

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Bob: I actually have my own "tinyurl". For example http://ask-leo.com/d-ms goes
to Microsoft.com, but it could be any arbitrary length URL. I use it long URLs
all the time.

I can't control what my visitors post in comments, though.

Leo
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Comment from Ed on 2007-05-05

2007-05-05T20:29:03Z

Hi Leo,
Thanks for your educational newsletters.

Now I would not have mentioned it if you had not asked, but I usually get a left-right scroll bar on your pages. The only way NOT to get one is to set the resolution better than 1024x168.

Why? Well maybe it has to do with my placing the taskbar vertically up the left side of the screen. I need more vertical screen than horizontal, so that's where I put the task bar.

Unfortunately an increasing number of webmasters seem never to admit this possibility. There might also be a technical issue that libraries do not handle it correctly.

With the growth in widescreen PCs , I would expect that vertical placement of the task bar might become more common.

Best regards,
Ed

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Comment from g. oliver on 2007-05-04

2007-05-05T03:30:22Z

Try Opera. The Opera browser has a "fit to screen" option that allows 640x480 as well as 800x600 without needing a horizontal scrollbar. Works great.

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Comment from Bob Seeley on 2007-05-04

2007-05-05T01:19:07Z

There's always tinyurl if you don't want that 8% to have to deal with horizontal scrolling.

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2007-05-01

2007-05-01T23:11:29Z

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Absolutely. Ask Leo! gets roughly a million visitors every month, so you're
very right - that 8% adds up to about 80,000 visitors. That's why, aside from
the issue I mention in the article, I *definitely* haven't written off 800x600
:-).

Someday that percentage will drop even lower, and I'll run across something
where I just can't justify the effort. But for now, 800x600 is on the list.

Leo
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Comment from Catmoves on 2007-05-01

2007-05-01T22:50:22Z

Of course we all have opinions. I believe Fred Langa discussed this one of his old post on
The Langa Letter. I seem to remember he had solution, too.
BTW, 8% may not seem like very many, but if the proper math is applied I would be sure the numbers would work out to several thousand. After all, some people will put up with any discomfort.

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