I've also mentioned this in the Firefox Support web forum:
I'd like a "Fit to window width" feature in Firefox (like 's). This
feature would be very useful when, for example, viewing a web page optimized
for 1024 x 768 resolutions on a user's display set to 800 x 600 resolution.
When Fit to window width is activated, a large page would shrink so the user
would be able to view the entire page left to right in the browser window
without having to scroll right.
My display can go up to 1024x768, but I choose to keep it at 800x600. Some
users are limited to 800x600, or even 640x480.
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I'd like some opinions on this please.

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I've also mentioned this in the Firefox Support web forum:

I'd like a "Fit to window width" feature in Firefox (like 's). This
feature would be very useful when, for example, viewing a web page
optimized for 1024 x 768 resolutions on a user's display set to 800 x 600
resolution. When Fit to window width is activated, a large page would
shrink so the user would be able to view the entire page left to right in
the browser window without having to scroll right.

My display can go up to 1024x768, but I choose to keep it at 800x600.
Some users are limited to 800x600, or even 640x480.

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John R. Sellers wrote:
I'd like some opinions on this please.

"John R. Sellers" <john (AT) theabandonedland (DOT) netwrote in message
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>I've also mentioned this in the Firefox Support web forum:
>>
>I'd like a "Fit to window width" feature in Firefox (like 's). This
>feature would be very useful when, for example, viewing a web page
>optimized for 1024 x 768 resolutions on a user's display set to 800 x 600
>resolution. When Fit to window width is activated, a large page would
>shrink so the user would be able to view the entire page left to right in
>the browser window without having to scroll right.
>>
>My display can go up to 1024x768, but I choose to keep it at 800x600.
>Some users are limited to 800x600, or even 640x480.

There really aren't that many people limited to 800x600 any more. I
simply choose to use 1024x768, but a great percentage of users tend to
be at 1280x960 (or x1024) these days, particularly as that's the typical
native resolution of flat panel displays.

Also, auto-fitting doesn't work as well as you might hope, and even
opera's one size fits all method causes squeezed pages on a lot of sites.

With displays, particularly CRT's going for what they do nowadays, you
should consider upgrading your display. 1024x768 on a 19" CRT will give
you heaps of visibility (the major complaint for users when they up
their res is the smaller graphics), and a little more screen real
estate. A nice 85+ refresh rate will be welcomed by your eyes too,
unless you're already using a flat panel.

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Why use Firefox if even with extensions, it cannot surpass ?
I use even if I'm an Source developer on both the Linux and
Windows Platform.
The thing is - you cannot modify the source code of Mozilla to make it
render an entire page into a specific resolution. That's impossible
unless there's a serious revamping of the original Mozilla code which I
remind you is a bunch of hassling codes which consist of some lines
which are not even documented. I think the guys did not know the
concept of Modular Programming. Anyway, I suggest we all move to
and try to re-create or adapt its ERA rendering technology to Mozilla.
I don't want to offend anyone but those who actually believe that
Mozilla or Firefox is better than , then you're losers. Sorry, but
that must be said. Try and you'll see the difference.

I find IE 7b even better at rendering than Mozilla and Firefoz. But
remains the best.

Don't follow the mass! Use better software based on intelligent
conclusions.

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Darren Salt wrote:

Display width != window width. Just because the display happens to be 1024 or
1280 pixels wide, that's no reason to design sites to fill that

I might just mention that I don't actually design websites, other than
one or two static pages on a site that's best left ignored these days. ;)

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I'm especially excited by this sentence:

shah.auckburaully (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:
Don't follow the mass! Use better software based on intelligent

Hint: Internet Explorer is still the user agent reported by the majority
of web traffic. People who use Firefox do not "follow the mass" (by
which I'm sure you meant "follow the masses"). Sentences like that hurt
your argumentative ethos. =)

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