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Which do you prefer?

Flexible width forums that take up 100% of your browser width
75 (80.6%)
Fixed-width forums that take up a pre-defined pixel width (960)
4 (4.3%)
I don't care... really!
14 (15.1%)

Total Members Voted: 93

Voting closed: January 07, 2011, 04:02:47 pm

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Offline Sandwich

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Forum Width?
on: December 31, 2010, 04:02:47 pm
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/




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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

Offline FUBAR-BDHR

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Re: Forum Width?
Reply #1 on: December 31, 2010, 04:14:03 pm
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?  :warp:


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Re: Forum Width?
Reply #2 on: December 31, 2010, 04:31:23 pm
flexible please, if that's not too much of a problem.
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Re: Forum Width?
Reply #3 on: December 31, 2010, 04:59:24 pm
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).
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Re: Forum Width?
Reply #4 on: December 31, 2010, 06:11:27 pm
Flexible 100%

Its much easier to read on different devices that way.

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Offline Aurora Paradox

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Re: Forum Width?
Reply #5 on: December 31, 2010, 06:33:24 pm
Quote from: ABetterWay on December 31, 2010, 06:11:27 pm
Flexible 100%

Its much easier to read on different devices that way.

-ABW

I second that.
 

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Re: Forum Width?
Reply #6 on: December 31, 2010, 06:55:12 pm
i cant really tell the difference
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Re: Forum Width?
Reply #7 on: December 31, 2010, 08:32:48 pm
The Flexiforums appear to win by a landslide.
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Re: Forum Width?
Reply #8 on: December 31, 2010, 08:45:53 pm
The dial up vote probably isn't in yet.
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Re: Forum Width?
Reply #9 on: January 01, 2011, 12:27:06 am
Flexible.
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Re: Forum Width?
Reply #10 on: January 01, 2011, 01:44:42 am
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
« Last Edit: January 01, 2011, 10:00:02 am by Sandwich »
 

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Re: Forum Width?
Reply #11 on: January 01, 2011, 01:56:01 am
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.
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Re: Forum Width?
Reply #12 on: January 01, 2011, 02:27:33 am
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. 
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Re: Forum Width?
Reply #13 on: January 01, 2011, 02:44:25 am
Basically, as it currently is. Flexible, with some margin on the sides. It's perfect.
 

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Re: Forum Width?
Reply #14 on: January 01, 2011, 03:19:01 am
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.
 

Offline Grizzly

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Re: Forum Width?
Reply #15 on: January 01, 2011, 03:21:58 am
Flexible, for those netbooks. < 960 screens are actually quite common.
 

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Re: Forum Width?
Reply #16 on: January 01, 2011, 10:00:39 am
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. :)
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Re: Forum Width?
Reply #17 on: January 01, 2011, 11:51:11 am
Eh, I read HLP on several devices - 1920x1200, 1024x600 and 640x960 (Monitor, rooted Nook Color and iPhone 4 respectively). Flexible thus preferred.
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Reply #18 on: January 01, 2011, 01:42:28 pm
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.
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Re: Forum Width?
Reply #19 on: January 01, 2011, 02:08:26 pm
Given that it's 42 to 1 with 7 snuffies, I'd say you can probably stop voting now :p
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