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Old 08-04-05
Pandini Pandini is offline
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  I can't believe they've made such a fundamental error

Fixed screen sizes are a no-no at all.

Why either restrict someone's viewing (like when I look at a design fixed to 640 width in my 1280 width browser) or prevent people seeing everything (like when I try to view the new DGM site on my palmtop)

There is no such thing as designing for a "screen size". You have to accept that it's 320px width and upwards (or less if you take phones into account).

And if you fix the width at something ridiculous like 1280, you're kind of saying "we don't really know what we're doing" and then when you start to stack up the other evidence with DGM recently, you start to think that more and more, and then you start to wonder if a particular ship is sinking and whether, perhaps, it's time to get out.

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