[LINK] Internet recruitment for defence

[Rick Welykochy]

Antony Barry wrote:

>>  http://games.defencejobs.gov.au/
> 
> I got -
> 
> "This site is designed to work best at resolutions of 1024x768 and above.
> 
> Either your browser window is not large enough or your screen resolution 
> is too low."
> 
> But that IS my resolution. I then accepted their invitation to "ignore 
> this warning" and got a black screen.

Your screen may be 1024x768, but the rendering area in your browser
(the actual browser space) will be 10-20% less on either axis, depending
on how much cruft you have enabled, i.e. tool bars, status bar, bookmarks
and faves panels, etc.

So, does 1024x768 mean that screen size using IE with no tool bars? Perhaps
it means using links or lynx in a shell window that large? Who knows?

In general it is naive and unprofessional, to say the least, for a web designer
to specify a specific page width. Notice that they never depend on a specific
page HEIGHT!

It seems scrolling vertically is fine, but they would never want their
site scrolled horizontally. Which is also fine. It is a pain to read
an article line-by-scrolled-horiz-line.

But! HTML technology allows the designer to fit their page into a *minimal*
page width, something reasonable like 640 pix wide. The HTML + browser then ensure
that as the browser rendering area is widened, the page naturally redisplays
and fits the new size, always taking up the available width. It is called
relative widths, and has been available since tables were introduced, oh, some
10+ years ago.

Why site designers insist on nailing their pages down to 800 pix wide max (evil #1)
or worse designing their pages to require a miniumum width of 1024 (evil #2)
I'll never know. Put it down to incompetence and a lack of understanding
of the language they are using. Evil #1 results in a lot of wasted screen real
estate and Evil #2 results in a lot of needless horizontal scrolling.

I am preaching to the converted, right?

cheers
rickw



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