Re: FLASH: Screen size

[unique]

<caffeinated soapbox rant warning>


PLEASE.


Get out a ruler and a calculator. Open your browser, open a new 

browser window, and maximize it (without turning off toolbars, etc.). 

Now measure the width and the height, and divide the width by the 

height. Depending upon your browser, and monitor size, you'll get a 

number somewhere around 1.8. THIS NUMBER, and NOT 1.33, is the proper 

ratio to use for your stage areas, if you want to take maximum 

advantage of the *actual viewable portion within the window* on your 

screen. Just because your monitor's ratio is 1.33 to 1, doesn't mean 

your browser window's proportions are the same. They're not! So, if 

you're gonna consider height of your Web page in *any way*, you need 

to either use the proper ratio, or don't bother! Pages designed to be 

600x480 or even 600x450 (a much more common set of figures) *will* 

have scroll bars on small monitors, even though they fit width-wise.


HTH,


Ken Sherwood


--


*DAMN*.


Last Friday, 2/25/00, and/or Sunday, 2/27/00, on FoxNews' "The 

O'Reilly Factor", Bill O'Reilly read *my* email to him! BUT I didn't 

run a VCR on it. Anybody have a copy? TNX.


"Adobe, who has deeper pockets than Macromedia, has announced a Flash 

competitor. Will Macromedia survive?"


-- hwg-theory list contributor, 2000.02.12


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