[mapserver-users] Screen Resolution Woes...

[Jason R. Patton]

greetings,

well, i just design to a smaller screen. but thats not what you want. your ideas
are pretty cool. what i would suggest is that you design for the width of screen
resolutions this is the main limiting factor, in my opinion.

jay

"Hankley, Chip" wrote:

> 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?