- From: MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 23:50:03 -0800 (PST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
Once upon a time Heikki Vesalainen shaped the electrons to say... >I still want to say that the reason I started the discussion on >this subject was that my background pictures look bad on screens This is a completely invalid reason. The *proper* solution is for you do design you page to suit the medium, NOT mess with the medium to suit your pages. Resizing a browser window is intrusive, extremely rude, and no one I know who browses the web would be happy with hitting a page and having their window change. People tend to size their windows deliberately. There are already complaints about pages that use wide gifs or preformatted text that runs off of default screens. And you don't think their would be an outcry at resizing windows? >wider than 800 pixels (by back ground pictures are 800 pixels wide), and >I want some kind of solution to this (other than, "stop using back The solution is to learn how to design a page so that it doesn't matter how someone sizes their window. Design for your audience, don't try to force the audience to meet your desires. >Just check them out on an screen wider than 800 pixels, the background >pictures will "loop". >(the address is http://www.clinet.fi/~wes/me.html) Bad design. -MZ -- Although I work for Livingston Enterprises Technical Support, I alone am responsible for everything contained herein. So don't waste my managers' time bitching to them if you don't like something I've said. Flame me. Phone: 800-458-9966 support@livingston.com <http://www.livingston.com/> FAX: 510-426-8951 6920 Koll Center Parkway #220, Pleasanton, CA 94566
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