Re: [Firebird-website] Increasing width of site pages

[Alexey K. <ak...@ib...>]

Lester,

>Should we move to 1280px in the next version of the site?


>> I would say no. And ask the question, why are we using pixels instead of
>> percentages?
> I must say that I'm in agreement on that! Yes we need to cater for viewing on
> lower resolution devices, such as the range of smartphone and pads being used
> nowadays (and serving an alternative theme might help there), but leaving 50% of
> the screen blank on the current range of desktop machines is a right pain. It
> took me a while to get http://medw.co.uk working reasonably well and it still
> needs a bit more fine tuning, but I think it scales quite well from 1024 to 1920
> and on most browsers it will handle 800 even ...
In 1920 it looks pretty bad, with a lot of unreasonable blank spaces:
http://ge.tt/8nhaCq9?c

Creating scaled design which will look great from 1024 to 1920 is 
non-trivial work.

I think that mobile version (phones) should be completeley different, 
but pads already have 1024 or 1280 pixels.

Regards,
Alexey Kovyazin