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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 Mar 2013 at 21:38
(On the subject of 3d: it depends on the browser (not just the operating system) having support for the user's video card, which means that some users aren't going to get it. So please, at the very least, don't make UI changes that are broken unless 3d is working. By all means make nice visuals for those for whom it does work, just as long as those for whom it doesn't can still do everything. But 3d is off-topic.)

Back on the subject of support for wide-screen: I, on the other hand, have my (fairly big) screen routinely in portrait mode (so it's taller than its 1200px of width - this lets me see lots of lines of things I write and edit without scrolling, which matters more to me than the few web-sites that get upset by my browser not being the shape their authors expected). The UI mostly handles that OK, but it could make better use of space (I can slightly improve this by detaching chat and moving it around, but only slightly, and it covers part of the friend panel if I do that). I must suppose tablets also see this effect when held in portrait mode.

The important thing is to write the HTML such that it adapts to the actual display, rather than presuming some particular size and shape. It's fine to tweak things such that they work particularly well for particularly common screen configurations, as long as it all works reasonably well (if not quite so well as the common case) for a broad range of different configurations. Doing that would automatically lead to good support for wide-screen (or tall-screen, using it in portrait mode).

     Eddy.
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