Re: OT: 800x600
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texte = Jeff Logan wrote: > A new site we develop does not fit the 800x600 PC screen size and not sure why. > > Take a look at http://www.dungenessbay.com > > It loads fine on my Mac and I do not have a horizontal scroll bar at the > bottom of the browser, but using IE on Windows I get a scroll bar at the > bottom. The web site is told to be centered and is 770 pixels wide which > should fit the 800x600 screen size. Web Site has no HTML Syntax Errors as > well. > > Any thoughts? What exactly happens? The entire page aligned too far to the right? If so it's probably IE that doesn't handle the NS specific
tag well. (Everybody tells us we shouldn't use that tag at all, but so far nobody's come up with a good alternative.) Page too wide for the screen? You don't actually *believe* in technical data provided by Microsoft, do you? Just figure out how wide that screen *actually* is and adjust accordingly. Everything OK except for a superfluous scroll bar at the bottom? Tricky, but try to embedd the whole thing into a . It might work. Frank Nordberg http://www.musicaviva.com ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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Jeff Logan wrote: > A new site we develop does not fit the 800x600 PC screen size and not sure why. > > Take a look at http://www.dungenessbay.com > > It loads fine on my Mac and I do not have a horizontal scroll bar at the > bottom of the browser, but using IE on Windows I get a scroll bar at the > bottom. The web site is told to be centered and is 770 pixels wide which > should fit the 800x600 screen size. Web Site has no HTML Syntax Errors as > well. > > Any thoughts? What exactly happens? The entire page aligned too far to the right? If so it's probably IE that doesn't handle the NS specific tag well. (Everybody tells us we shouldn't use that tag at all, but so far nobody's come up with a good alternative.) Page too wide for the screen? You don't actually *believe* in technical data provided by Microsoft, do you? Just figure out how wide that screen *actually* is and adjust accordingly. Everything OK except for a superfluous scroll bar at the bottom? Tricky, but try to embedd the whole thing into a