Scratch

cygene wrote:

Hasn't anyone ever though of making the scratch site widescreen. I have a widescreen laptop, I think the aspect ratio of 16:9, and the scratch site only fills up half of my web browser's screen. The rest is just empty white space. Wouldn't it be much more efficient to use up all of the 16:9 space. Besides, that's the standard nowadays, and for older monitors/computers, the extra width would turn on the horizontal scroller. So, what do you think?

I'd rather NOT have to scroll right whenever I want to view the Front Page. Not everybody has widescreen computers you know. I may have a widescreen, but it doesn't BOTHER me when a tiny amount of screen isn't filled.

Last edited by Trekkie210 (2011-09-10 19:17:42)

Yeah, I like it how it is.

Harakou wrote:

I wouldn't like that at all, sorry. I have a 16:9 monitor too, but it's actually a web standard to give your site a fixed width that will fit inside most screens. While it could probably be a bit wider, I'm fine with it how it is, and would certainly not like it to take up the entire width of my screen. That generally looks unprofessional, plus it would be a huge pain for anyone with a narrower screen. 

Yes, also, text spanning the whole screen, or anything similar, is very hard to read.

This is why Apple gave safari a narrowing feature in the full screen mode (10.7) 

Harakou wrote:

I wouldn't like that at all, sorry. I have a 16:9 monitor too, but it's actually a web standard to give your site a fixed width that will fit inside most screens. While it could probably be a bit wider, I'm fine with it how it is, and would certainly not like it to take up the entire width of my screen. That generally looks unprofessional, plus it would be a huge pain for anyone with a narrower screen. 

They could enlarge the screen by 20 pixels in width. Not much is it...

They could make it liquid/elastic, but as someone else said it would be harder to read. I think it's great like it is now!

Last edited by LS97 (2011-09-12 13:48:06)

Wikipedia is quite hard to read when it covers the whole screen, which is why I disagree. 

scimonster wrote:

Wikipedia is quite hard to read when it covers the whole screen, which is why I disagree. 

I happen to like the way wikipedia is laid out. I hate that the other wiki's are changed, and many people do (some people are starting wikia's of their own that match the style of wikipedia.

you need to go widescreen i have a 4:3 monitor and it is so small! if you go widescreen than in will only show bars on the top instead of the top and sides