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From: new2accessibility accessibility
Date: Tue, Apr 26 2005 4:36AM
Subject: CSS layouts for different screen resolution
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Hi everyone,
Would it be advisable to create seperate css layouts for different screen resolutions?
Regards
Mins
From: Patrick Lauke
Date: Tue, Apr 26 2005 4:50AM
Subject: RE: CSS layouts for different screen resolution
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>new2accessibility accessibility
>> Would it be advisable to create seperate css layouts
>> for different screen resolutions?
I'd say you could do that, but additionally provide a fluid layout option.
Also, you'll need an obvious, accessible stylesheet switching mechanism.
Patrick
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From: Chris Price
Date: Tue, Apr 26 2005 4:58AM
Subject: RE: CSS layouts for different screen resolution
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On 26/4/05 11:36 am, "new2accessibility accessibility"
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>> Hi everyone,
>> Would it be advisable to create seperate css layouts for different screen
>> resolutions?
I think you'd be presuming too much if you served a particular css depending
on what you thought your visitor had their browser set at.
And I think your time would be better spent optimizing for a particular res
and checking that it was acceptable at other sizes. I hope your not going to
fix the font size.
I have my browser set considerably smaller than my screen so screen res will
tell you nothing.
You may want to consider emailing in plain text rather than html for lists
such as this.
-- Chris Price
Choctaw
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From: Joelle Tegwen
Date: Tue, Apr 26 2005 7:13AM
Subject: RE: CSS layouts for different screen resolution
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Maybe not their screen resolution, because you don't know how wide they have
their browser regardless of their resolution. For example, I have my
resolution at 1152 x 864 but I only use 2/3 of the width for my browser so
if you're "customizing" your page for me it won't fit in the way that I
prefer to use my browser.
But you could do it based on the size of their window
http://www.themaninblue.com/writing/perspective/2004/09/21/ (I know I saw
another example somewhere, but this is all I could find.
Just a thought.
Joelle
From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Tue, Apr 26 2005 8:04AM
Subject: RE: CSS layouts for different screen resolution
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>Hi everyone,
>> Would it be advisable to create seperate css layouts for
>> different screen resolutions?
No. Mainly because screen resolution isn't a variable that's that pertinent
to web design.
What is important is the browser view port size, and that, of course, can
vary widely.
You could make different CSS files and then reload them dynamically using
javascript based on the width of the browser, but that seems to be overkill
for most applications IMHO.
-Darrel