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r€nato
02-19-2009, 05:31 PM
I recently completed a project for a client which only has flat-screen Dell monitors. I designed the site for 1024x768 monitors which on the client's monitors was consistently too 'deep' (high) for them so that vertical scrolling was always necessary.

They wanted me to make their site fit their monitors. It took a bit of explaining to make them understand that 1024x768 is a standard and really the only way to make their site accomodate itself as if everyone had their monitors, would be to sniff the monitor resolution and serve up a differently-composed Flash movie, something they didn't want to do (additional expense).

(I was also annoyed with them for not saying anything about this until we were rather far down the development road!)

We agreed to continue developing for 1024x768 and just move the important stuff upwards, which might be missed if someone didn't scroll down. I have the feeling the client was less than satisfied with the answer but I was not really sure what to do about it other than take several steps backward in the design process and make a wide, shallow layout.

So... anyone else out there had this issue? Where a client wants no scroll bar on their flat-screen, LCD monitor while others on a traditional CRT monitor at 1024x768 or better see it 'normally'?

How did you address it, either in terms of discussing/explaining it with the client or technologically speaking, or both?

Thanks in advance for any tips or advice...

kkbbcute
02-21-2009, 11:20 AM
You could make your swf of a smaller resolution, like around 800 by 600, OR make your swf scale to the screen size if it is smaller than a certain resolution, which solves most problems and is what I often use.

Noct
02-24-2009, 07:04 PM
Well, kkbbcute is right on the money; a liquid layout would generally be the best solution in a situation like that, but I just have to ask something here...

Why would content be viewed differently on a "flatscreen" (LCD) monitor as opposed to a CRT? (which come in flatscreen too btw).

I mean, the color varies form monitor to monitor to some degree, (especially with age), but whether or not it is CRT or LCD should make no difference... The only thing that should effect the layout/scrolling is the resolution of the image and the setup of the browser to some degree.

Is the problem that their monitors are set to 800x600?

kkbbcute
02-25-2009, 05:43 AM
Actually unless you are a color freak or something, slight differences in color between monitors are usually negligible. (E.g. Red won't turn to blue)

cjx3711
03-03-2009, 01:03 PM
Well you could use these codes to help you, then you can detect the user's screen resolution and load the appropriate page for them

System.capabilities.screenResolutionX
System.capabilities.screenResolutionY

kkbbcute
03-03-2009, 01:06 PM
Well you could use these codes to help you, then you can detect the user's screen resolution and load the appropriate page for them

System.capabilities.screenResolutionX
System.capabilities.screenResolutionY

Wait, is that AS2 or 3 code?

atomic
03-03-2009, 03:10 PM
As2.0

kkbbcute
03-04-2009, 09:08 AM
What's the AS3 code then?

cjx3711
03-04-2009, 11:46 AM
AS3.0

Capabilities.screenResolutionX
Capabilities.screenResolutionY

kkbbcute
03-05-2009, 09:49 AM
AS3.0

Capabilities.screenResolutionX
Capabilities.screenResolutionY

Thanks.