Optimal screen size & CSS
Hi, I've just caught up with this thread from yesterday and I read the various opinions with interest. I generally agree with the postings from Chef-Design, use CSS and create either a fluid design or detect the screen size and apply the appropriate CSS template. The latter solution works well when things don’t scale easily or you want to have total control over the different sized layouts.
As for mobiles, well that’s a whole different kettle of fish. I have done a lot of work on this and ended up detecting the browser type from the request and then guessing what content to return. This is relatively straightforward in ASP.Net and our website is written using this method. By extending some of the ASP controls we have content dynamically generated to fit the screen, whether it’s a phone at 40x90, Palm 160x160, 384x512 or a PC resolution 800x600 and upwards. For the PC resolution I would aim at the 800x600, with the caveat that the real width is more likely to be 760 if you don’t want horizontal scrollies.
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