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Your web pages with fixed width of 800px may be fairly annoying to users with high-DPI displays. Mac Retina displays are perhaps the most recent and well known
by jzwinck 13y ago
Your web pages with fixed width of 800px may be fairly annoying to users with high-DPI displays. Mac Retina displays are perhaps the most recent and well known, but for years some people have had displays with DPI 50-200% higher than "normal", and for these people, your 800px decision looks like handcuffs. If you look back a dozen years you'll see a number of sites that instituted fixed-pixel-width layouts, then abandoned the approach as people bought more large, high-res displays.
P.S.: Yes, some operating systems and browsers now zoom in a way that this doesn't matter so much, but not all, and not without downsides.
- graycat 13y agoThanks. I don't know what to do about that yet. If they have a way just to zoom my Web pages, then they will be okay. But if they have a big screen with lots of pixels, then I don't want my Web pages taking all of that screen. It's better for the UI/UX for my pages to take less than the full screen so that my users can see some other screens while using my site.