Works fine here

Posted Jan 10, 2008 23:21 UTC (Thu) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: Works fine here by khim
Parent article: LWN.net: a ten-year timeline (part 1)

well, I've got two laptops, my two year old thinkpad has a 1024x768 screen and I could barely
fit the image in if I did printable mode to strip out the left column.

and I only managed it on my thinkpad becouse I use a relativly small (and ugly) font, if I
enlarged it a notch or so to use a much cleaner font it wouldn't fit.

but my two week old OLPC is only about 800x600 in color mode, so it wouldn't have a chance.

many of the cheaper projectors only do 800x600 cleanly, and going to 1024x768 comes close to
doubling the price.

sites should be designed to be readable on smaller screens, just like programmers still want
you to write code to fit in 80 columns, people sometimes want to use their larger screens for
other reasons (see multiple things at the same time or to use nicer fonts that eat pixels)

Times are changing

Posted Jan 11, 2008 7:25 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

Style guide here was recently updated and now 100 characters are norm... As for supported width question - it's actually quite tough question: I have both OQO model 01+ (with 800x480 resolution) and HP LP3065 (with 2560x1600) and most sites look ridiculous either on OQO or on HP. But usually I can just use "Fit-to-Width" mode in Opera for OQO so it's not such a big deal while too narrow sites are still painful...