[mapserver-users] Screen Resolution Woes...

[Hankley, Chip]

I'm really in my first year of creating dynamic web sites... so this is
pretty basic.

I keep running into issues with screen resolution on target machines.

I go through the whole process of making a really great ;) MapServer
application, designing it on my box (@ 1280 x 1024), then realize that half
my audience is running 640 x 480. I'm mostly designing my apps for in-house
clients now... but am on the cusp of putting things on the web - I can only
imagine this problem will be compounded then.

What I've been experimenting with is using JavaScript to detect the
available screen real-estate, then building the interface based on those
numbers (I'm using PHP with MapScript). This works OK, but seems quite
cumbersome. What is really frustrating to me is that the width / height
ratio doesn't seem to remain the same as screen resolution setting change -
so simply shrinking / expanding the interface in a linear fashion doesn't
work very well. I like the idea of having the application be automatically
sized appropriately based on what's available (i.e. NOT having a "click here
to increase / decrease the size).

How do other people deal with this?