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From: Conyers, Dwayne
Date: Aug 12, 2005 12:00PM

Darrel Austin wrote:

> I once worked on an intranet for 3M. I was assured
> that their IT policy was 800 pixel minimum
> resolution, so our intranet should fully use 800
> pixels of screen real estate. I normally don't do
> that, but since this was a mandate, and assured
> policy, we went with it.
>
> The day came to present it to their department
> head. Oops. They were using a 640 screen.


LOL -- been there as well. Fortunately, we had the foresight to link to
a screen resolution script in the header of each page and it did a META
redirect to a page custom-crafted for smaller resolution. It saved our
bacon... UNTIL someone running two machines with monitors at differing
resolutions (who would have guessed) noticed that the pages were built
differently on different resolutions and lodged a complaint!

Who runs two machines simultaneously at differing resolutions?

Incidentally, we noticed a similar situation when someone noted that the
page looked different on Netscape than it looked on IE. Our focus in
developing that web application was that it *FUNCTIONED* on both browser
platforms -- but didn't realize the customer wanted them to look
identical.

We just chanted our mantra, "The customer is always right" and counted
down towards happy hour.


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