- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 12:45:40 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 5:16p +0000 08/31/97, David Marsh wrote:
> On 29-Aug-97 00:04:45, walter@natural-innovations.com (Walter Ian Kaye)
said:
>
> >Hmm... I'm getting an idea...
>
> >How about some sort of "geek code" (but not as geeky) where we enumerate
> >what the page uses, something like:
>
> [snip]
> > *: any
> [snip]
>
> >WW: window width
>
> >So, an enumeration might look like:
>
> > 216=Y; WW=472-*; JS=1; CK=0; J=0; TBL=2+; IMG=1,#5:6K,WHA
> ^^^^^^
>
> While this idea perhaps has some merit, forcing a given window size onto
> viewers (we are obviously talking graphical browsers in this context) is a
> really bad idea, and guaranteed to irritate.
I agree! Again to explain, this is NOT a browser directive, it is information
for HUMANS. An abbreviated advisory. An alert. A warning. A proclamation. (Am
I sounding like Lt Cmdr Data yet?;)
> For those reasons, I prefer to ensure that the 'total graphic width' of the
> images in my webpages is not greater than 400 pixels, which allows two
> browser windows to fit happily into an 800x600 screen, and just squash into
> lower resolution screens.
That is good. I recently found a way to make my title graphics appear to
"stretch" in the middle -- check out my counters-at-a-glance page at
<http://www.natural-innovations.com/counters.html> for an example (zoom
and unzoom/restore your window to see how it adjusts). It does require
a 3.0 browser for the full effect (uses background cell color), but it
will still stretch on older browsers (just with a hole in the middle;).
__________________________________________________________________________
Walter Ian Kaye <boo_at_best*com> Programmer - Excel, AppleScript,
Mountain View, CA ProTERM, FoxPro, HTML
http://www.natural-innovations.com/ Musician - Guitarist, Songwriter
Received on Sunday, 31 August 1997 15:48:51 UTC