Natalie79
01-27-2006, 11:18 AM
I’ve just read oneeyebrow's (http://codingforums.com/showthread.php?t=77617) post about window resizing according to a surfer’s resolution… I didn’t quite understand what he meant but I would guess that he might have been asking if there is a way to have your website adapt to the user’s browser settings and resolution once that users visits your site.
Funny enough I was just on my way to ask this question then I spotted his post. I’m pretty sure I’ve visited a few websites (decades ago) that once entering the main page, the site would reload itself according to the resolution of my screen (once being 800X600 until I got out of that shoe-box phase)… then noticed when visiting that same site at work the artwork and graphics where much larger, adapting to the larger resolution of the screen.
SO… how does that work? ;)
One guess I have is that the designer rendered the sites design into separate sizes, then using some kind of code that determines the current visitor’s resolution upon entering the site to upload the design that best suits that user’s settings… if only I could remember which sites had that option I’d go back and find the source :confused:
-Nat
Funny enough I was just on my way to ask this question then I spotted his post. I’m pretty sure I’ve visited a few websites (decades ago) that once entering the main page, the site would reload itself according to the resolution of my screen (once being 800X600 until I got out of that shoe-box phase)… then noticed when visiting that same site at work the artwork and graphics where much larger, adapting to the larger resolution of the screen.
SO… how does that work? ;)
One guess I have is that the designer rendered the sites design into separate sizes, then using some kind of code that determines the current visitor’s resolution upon entering the site to upload the design that best suits that user’s settings… if only I could remember which sites had that option I’d go back and find the source :confused:
-Nat