Status: Unresolved

    Feature Request: wider content area on screen

    Issue Number:
    23
    Severity:
    Minor
    Description:
    Those of us with the luxury of a wide screen would like a liquid-style display to take advantage of it. This would give more real-estate to the posts and content, but would make project developers have to consider the implications of different screen widths when developing the content of their Front Pages and Documents. This is not critical, but seeing so much red to the left and right is somewhat annoying.
    Comments:

    SmootRK's picture
    SmootRK
    August 13, 2007 - 7:12pm
    Seconded Cool
    <insert witty comment here>

    CleanCutRogue's picture
    CleanCutRogue
    August 13, 2007 - 7:18pm

    haha... You can't second this... you Firsted it.  I put it here cuz of you Foot in mouth

    Actually - I did some work on this.  What I *could* do as a solution is maybe provide a checkbox in your user profile to use a wider, fixed-screen.  Right now the site's entire window is in 960 pixels, allowing a 32 pixel border on each side for 95% of our viewers (a made-up statistic that's probably pretty close).  Most people are at 1024x768.  My webstats collect that info on my other site (along with the fact that 79% of you are using either Netscape or Firefox rather than IE... surprising, that).  So... if I provide a checkbox for a wider presentation, how wide should it be?  My screen is a freakish 1680 wide, but I think that's pretty unusual.  What is yours?

    3. We wear sungoggles during the day. Not because the sun affects our vision, but when you're cool like us the sun shines all the time.

    -top 11 reasons to be a Yazirian, ShadowShack


    SmootRK's picture
    SmootRK
    August 14, 2007 - 8:19pm
    my resolution is 1280x800 on my laptop, but I also view things on a desktop that keeps 1280x1024... I don't think the top/bottom dimension is much to worry about.  Scrolling is inevitable for forums.
    <insert witty comment here>

    CleanCutRogue's picture
    CleanCutRogue
    August 15, 2007 - 7:33am
    I'll work on making a "wide-screen" checkbox and a second set of CSS options that are dynamically used if your checkbox is set.  It'll take some time and if other issues come up that are more pressing I'll have to leave this and come back to it, so it won't be quick.  I'll work on a style that maintains a 1216 pixel width (so the same 32 pixel left/right border will exist as was designed for 1024 screens).  I don't worry about the height at all.  I will probably use this feature too :-)
    3. We wear sungoggles during the day. Not because the sun affects our vision, but when you're cool like us the sun shines all the time.

    -top 11 reasons to be a Yazirian, ShadowShack