April 16, 2005

One More Before We Go

At long last to the land of Nod for some, and just getting to functional status* for others, we thought you might like to see this cartoon from our fave in the Great White North:

Forgotten spectacle

[geekspeak]We would also like to take this chance to ask: what resolution are you using to look at this site? We have noticed that the big pictures cause oceans of blank blue space when they display next to the links zone when people have their displays set to 640x480. We normally use and test display our site at 1024x768 and 800x600 (where it looks somewhat funky but gets the points across nonetheless), since we usually have our display set to 1024x768. We're thinking of changing our standard maximum picture width from 600 pixels to 500, and we were wondering how you felt about the whole situation.[/geekspeak]

* - definitions of functionality and status may vary. See your standards manual for details.

Posted by (: Tom :) at April 16, 2005 04:42 AM
Comments

I don't even get the cartoon. What's a pixel?
Just kidding. I don't care how you display it, I'm here for the clever writing.

Posted by: waldo at April 19, 2005 04:02 PM

Not many do get that cartoon, Wal - it's a drawing of the old Olympic Stadium in Motreal, Quebec - which is now deserted because the Montreal Expos baseball team moved down to Washington DC this year. There was supposed to be a retractable roof on some cables suspended from the tower where he drew the cobwebs.

Anyways,... that's what I got from the cartoon - Aislin reminding us that the 'Spos are gone.

As for the pixels - that determines how wide the pics (and boxes) on the page are. Some people have problems seeing them when they are put next to the links zone on the LHS of the page. Particularly when they run their displays at 800x600 or less. So I'm playing with the page standards in a way. Thought you might like to know...

Posted by: (: Tom :) at April 19, 2005 09:47 PM