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Comment by asmosoinio | Hacker News Reader

One quick comment: Your layout doesn't really work on a smaller screen -- here's a screen shot from my laptop with 1280x768 resolution as I was browsing and having some stuff open (visible) behind the browser window:

http://screencast.com/t/6ufdUZOW

All other sites I usually visit work fine at this size.

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Interesting. The site is designed for 1024x768, it should should not require horizontal scrolling. Is your browser window full-screen, or do you browse in a smaller window?

As you can see from the image in the link, I was not using the full width of my screen as I was having an eye on some things running in the background while surfing. The window width was 923 pixels, height 770.

My screen is actually 1280x800. Even at full screen, the site requires vertical scrolling, even though the content would fit just nicely on my screen if just packed a little.

Anyway, my point was: didn't look as good as it could have when using the screen size I was using. I know it is impossible to please everyone...

Yeah I guess we can look at redoing some of our CSS as fluid to allow for more compact views on smaller screens. We avoided it for now as our graphic designer said it was more complicated and we would likely face more cross browser compatibility issues. After nailing down pretty much the whole UI, it is probably worth investing the time at that point for scaling CSS.

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