[Sandwich]

I'd appreciate everyone's input in this poll. Thanks!

Flexible-width example: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/
Fixed-width example: http://www.hard-light.net/

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Personally I use 2 different sized screens.  I really hate when I'm on a site that doesn't adjust and leave space on the sides especially when I have to scroll to see pics.

Oh and since we have to maintain retail hardware spec compatibility that fixed with would have to be 640x480 wouldn't it? 


Also the warp smiley needs a transparent background.

[Rodo]

flexible please, if that's not too much of a problem.

[Lukeskywalkie]

Flex. I mean, as long as we're upgrading for security purposes, we may as well take the time to implement  and adapt to new features (if useful, as this one is IMO).

[ABetterWay]

Flexible 100%

Its much easier to read on different devices that way.

-ABW

[Aurora Paradox]

Flexible 100%

Its much easier to read on different devices that way.

-ABW

I second that.

[Nuke]

i cant really tell the difference

[NGTM-1R]

The Flexiforums appear to win by a landslide.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

The dial up vote probably isn't in yet.

[SpardaSon21]

Flexible.

[Fury]

I don't think this poll was accurate enough. When Sandwich says flexible width that takes 100% of browser width, he literally meant it as such.

You see that there are no empty sides like there are in default SMF theme. While width of those empty sides could be smaller, I personally prefer some empty space on sides as opposed to none at all.

Actually, I merely haven't gotten to that part of the templates yet. There will be sufficient white-space on the sides, don't worry.   - Sandwich

[Zacam]

I'm with Fury on that one. A 10/20 px margin of padding on left and right for a variable width format would be cherry.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

While that would be an issue on some forums with the no avatar and only short comment under the name I don't see it as a problem here.  You can still move the mouse to one side and scroll without hitting other scroll bars. 

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Basically, as it currently is. Flexible, with some margin on the sides. It's perfect.

[Shivan Hunter]

tbh I'd prefer a much smaller margin than we have now and than we had on the old theme. Makes more efficient use of space- at the moment we're wasting 138 pixels for the forum border, and 38 more pixels for the borders between that border and the actual post. Sandwich's pic wastes around 2 pixels, at least that I can see. Something around 10-15 pixels on either side would be alright, but honestly, the less the better.

Oh and, flexible, obviously. Fixed-width forums are a broken design in and of themselves imo- using less than the available space for no reason at all (or more than the available space!) is not a good design by pretty much any standard.

[Grizzly]

Flexible, for those netbooks. < 960 screens are actually quite common.

[Sandwich]

As I added to Fury's post above, I merely haven't gotten to that part of the templates yet. There will be sufficient white-space on the sides, don't worry.

[Ypoknons]

Eh, I read HLP on several devices - 1920x1200, 1024x600 and 640x960 (Monitor, rooted Nook Color and iPhone 4 respectively). Flexible thus preferred.

[-Sara-]

Flexible please, I got a high resolution. Defined pixels x pixels typically fill half the screen for me or others who run on a similar resolution. Fixed sizes work for blogs and bulletins, not for forums I think.

[Black Wolf]

Given that it's 42 to 1 with 7 snuffies, I'd say you can probably stop voting now