Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > >
> > > > http://www.parc.xerox.com
> > > > simple look, but very dynamic action
> > > > (scrappy, run your mouse across the menus)
> > >
> > > I didn't like this. Too much white space, did not spread across page.
> >
> > What, exactly, is spread? If you mean 'width' across the page, not
> > having it is, IMHO, a good idea. I like a clean narrow (possibly long)
> > page. I don't know about anybody else, but I like to do other things
> > when I'm browsing the web, and narrow pages give me more screen real
> > estate to do that (it's more intuitive to scroll down than across).
> > Wide pages are a pain on small displays, and waste precious screen space.
>
> I used fvwm, so I have multiple desktops, and Netscape gets to fill its
I use a mac, so maybe that's my problem.. ;-) Actually, it doesn't make
any difference if I want to be able to see what I'm working on and the
browser at the same time (they'd have to be on the same desktop), but I
see your point.
> own at 1000x640. Our current page spreads the text across the browser
> window. In a narrow browser, it disiplays narrow text. I agree you
> can't define it to be wide by default, but it should be able to fill the
> window. You can even define margins of whitespace, to say 10% of the
> window width.
Ok, we're on the same page here, I just wasn't sure what you meant by spread...
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