* Feature suggestion *

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Reese

If you're like me, you're drunk right now. And you also hate resizing your
browser to adapt to every website's width. At high resolutions, you want to
maximize desktop usage so you don't want to maximize the browser.

That's when it occurred to me. Wouldn't it be great to have a function on IE
that would automatically resize the browser to the smallest width possible
without generating an horizontal scrollbar, and do this automatically for
every site you visit, without ever affecting the height? You'd still be able
to manually resize as you do now, only that when the domain name changes,
the browser resizes to get rid of the horizontal scrollbar - but not one
pixel more.

Does such a function already exist? It would seem embarrassingly easy to
implement if it doesn't.
 
Hi Reese,

Its a good suggestion. Other posters have made the comment about wide screen
formats for web pages. Here is a link for your information about screen
resolutions usage on the web.

http://www.upsdell.com/browsernews/stat_trends.htm

Unfortunately you idea is un-implementable as many web sites use percentage
sizeing of their pages, so the browser has no way of knowing how to resize
to fit the web page (it works the other way around).

I am afraid that this is an issue of "the loose nut holding the keyboard"
problem. Too many web designers create their pages to fit THEIR computer
screens, without consideration for what is in use in the REAL world.

Have a drink 4 me 2.

Regards.
 
Reese said:
If you're like me, you're drunk right now.
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No I'm not.
And you also hate resizing your
browser to adapt to every website's width.
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I don't because I feel no such compulsion.
At high resolutions, you want to
maximize desktop usage so you don't want to maximize the browser.
Click to expand...

I don't need to use a high resolution. I'm sober. I can remember how many
windows I have open, therefore I don't have to see them all simultaneously
in order to switch between them, I just use ALT+TAB.
That's when it occurred to me. Wouldn't it be great to have a function on IE
that would automatically resize the browser to the smallest width possible
without generating an horizontal scrollbar, and do this automatically for
every site you visit, without ever affecting the height? You'd still be able
to manually resize as you do now, only that when the domain name changes,
the browser resizes to get rid of the horizontal scrollbar - but not one
pixel more.
Click to expand...

You don't want much do you? Would you like a beverage with that?
Does such a function already exist?
Click to expand...

What do you think?
It would seem embarrassingly easy to
implement if it doesn't.
Click to expand...

And it would be easier still to get every site on the web to adopt the
solution. Hopefully your grip on reality will improve after you sober up.
;)
photog
 
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