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Yes, it is incredible. I had this same conversation with a local Dallas sports personality, Dale Hansen. Dale is a 50 something white guy who almost always says what he means, so he's been fired a few times from other stations. It started out when Dale said, "I'm the computer idiot who can't turn the dang thing on, but in my business, I have to use it now. Can't they just make it simple enough that I can see what I want to see without having a magnifying glass. These eyes are old enough as it is." You know it went down hill from there, but he's a great person, so I spent about an hour talking to him and walking him through changing the resolution on his desktop and back. Having been friends with him for as long as I have, I felt sorry for him because AH Belo, the parent company of the station he works for outsourced their help-desk support. There's not a chance that the Cornhusker who has been in Texas for 30 years could possibly understand those people. I just laugh and say, "Ok, Dale. From the top, one more time..." John Brandt iStuido400.com -----Original Message----- From: Chuck Lewis [mailto:clewis@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 8:41 AM To: 'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users' Subject: RE: [PCTECH] Problem with a new Compaq and 17" flat screen That's is really incredible. Nice to know a site could care less about their users, eh ? Chuck -----Original Message----- From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Brandt Sr. Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 9:10 AM To: 'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users' Subject: RE: [PCTECH] Problem with a new Compaq and 17" flat screen Yes, Chuck it's incredibly difficult... Not... In JavaScript 1.2 or above, it would look like: var winX = screen.width; var winY = screen.height; if (winX <= '640') {... yada... yada... John Brandt iStudio400.com -----Original Message----- From: Chuck Lewis [mailto:clewis@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 7:48 AM To: 'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users' Subject: RE: [PCTECH] Problem with a new Compaq and 17" flat screen UNREAL ! Thanks so much John. That does indeed explain this "weird" behavior ! Is it that hard to check for something like that and adjust ? I wouldn't think so since EVERYONE ELSE seems to be doing it... And for THAT site of all sites considering they are GUARANTEED to have among THE most diverse of people and PC's (i.e. OS's and browser versions, etc.) of any... Thanks ! Chuck -----Original Message----- From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Brandt Sr. Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 5:03 PM To: 'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users' Subject: RE: [PCTECH] Problem with a new Compaq and 17" flat screen Chuck, Mike, This is caused by the site not checking the resolution prior to rendering the page to the browser. A resolution of 1024x768 or higher will cause "Fitted" HTML to display on the left side of the browser. ESPN has always been guilty of this, despite my many e-mails and offers to fix it for them. That is why I always check up to this resolution for any web-sites that I do. John Brandt iStudio400.com -----Original Message----- From: Wills, Mike N. (TC) [mailto:MNWills@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 2:51 PM To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users Subject: RE: [PCTECH] Problem with a new Compaq and 17" flat screen Make sure he has all the latest patches installed. If that doesn't work, tell him to use Mozilla, that should work. Mike Wills Lawson Programmer/Administrator Taylor Development Email: mnwills@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Direct Line: (507) 386-3187 -----Original Message----- From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chuck Lewis Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 2:36 PM To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users Subject: [PCTECH] Problem with a new Compaq and 17" flat screen Hi Folks, Had one of the salesman query me just now; he purchased a new Compaq desktop PC this weekend with a 17" monitor and all was fine. He fired up IE and went to ESPN's website (so read in more detail about our Colt's mess yesterday.) and it only showed on about 2/3's of the screen with the right hand side "missing". So he went to PC World and ZDNET and it was fine on them. Then he went to Comcast (his cable provider) and it showed even smaller and in the very middle of the screen. And here we go with offshore support. He called Compaq tech support and spoke to 6 different people and said he could basically understand none of them (accents). This is no knock on our international friends ! He is a patient person but ended up hanging up on them. As he noted, the sad thing is, he gives up on tech support and is willing to live with the problem. I am get him the URL for Compaq's web-based tech support because I have never had any problems with them. So does anyone have any idea what would be causing this behavior ? 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