Main page at widescreen resolutions

[yg17]

Whenever I stretch my browser window to the full width, 1680 pixels I believe, there's a white gap on the main page. I'm using Camino, here's a screenshot:



Just thought I'd report it.

 

[paleck]

Whenever I stretch my browser window to the full width, 1680 pixels I believe, there's a white gap on the main page. I'm using Camino, here's a screenshot:

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Just thought I'd report it.

I can vouch for that. I am running at 1680x1050. I only see it when Safari is taking up 90% or more of the width of my screen. (good thing I don't normally keep safari that large)

UPDATE: Same thing happens in firefox...FYI

 

[MacFan25863]

Same thing happens to me using Camino.

 

[HexMonkey]

This image appears to be the source of the problem. It's used in the CSS for the story titlebars (see below), so when the window is so wide that a story is wider than the image, a white gap appears.

.titlebar_top {
	text-align:right;
	background: #fff url("http://images.macrumors.com/css/im/titlebar_topleft red.gif") no-repeat top left;
}

 

[Felldownthewell]

I'm running Safari at 1400x900 fullscreen and I don't see it, just to confuse things...

 

[dmw007]

I'm running Safari at 1400x900 fullscreen and I don't see it, just to confuse things...

Same here, and no problem.

 

[Rower_CPU]

This image appears to be the source of the problem. It's used in the CSS for the story titlebars (see below), so when the window is so wide that a story is wider than the image, a white gap appears.

.titlebar_top {
	text-align:right;
	background: #fff url("http://images.macrumors.com/css/im/titlebar_topleft red.gif") no-repeat top left;
}

Yup, that's exactly it. The image is 1200 pixels wide, so once the middle column expands past 1200px (+ the padding/borders, top right corner image) there'll be a gap. It looks like the background color could be changed to match the image (#650206) which would get rid of the gap.

 

[portent]

Not to excuse poor page design, but why would you have your web browser that wide?

Most pages look best with the browser around 1024px wide. As a bonus, those of you with large displays will have lots of room left for other things.

 

[SilentPanda]

Not to excuse poor page design, but why would you have your web browser that wide?

Never ask a computer user why they do things... the answer is always "because I can".



I usually run my browser at 1050x1680... yeah I'm backwards. Or sideways I guess.

 

[WildCowboy]

Not to excuse poor page design, but why would you have your web browser that wide?

I like mine nice and wide when on the MacRumors forums because the text wrapping allows me to reduce the amount of vertical scrolling I have to do. Of course, at some point the user info and avatars become the limiting factor to the height of the posts, so there are diminishing returns to that strategy.

 

[yg17]

Not to excuse poor page design, but why would you have your web browser that wide?

Most pages look best with the browser around 1024px wide. As a bonus, those of you with large displays will have lots of room left for other things.

Because I can

It's convienent for reading forums. When I'm designing pages, I reduce my window to about 1024 pixels wide

 

[Felldownthewell]

Most pages look best with the browser around 1024px wide. As a bonus, those of you with large displays will have lots of room left for other things.

When I browse I usually have it fullscreen (1400x900). I guess this is because I am a recent PC user and I always get distracted from what I'm reading if I can see my desktop. If I'm chatting Expose works just fine. If I'm photoshopping then I'll run Safari a lot smaller.

 

[Mord]

1920x1200.

 

[-Ryan-]

Almost fouryears on, and MacRumors still doesn't support widescreen? Really?

 

[SilentPanda]

Almost fouryears on, and MacRumors still doesn't support widescreen? Really?

Is your complaint that the black line doesn't go all the way? I don't know if I would consider that a lack of widescreen support.

 

[-Ryan-]

Is your complaint that the black line doesn't go all the way? I don't know if I would consider that a lack of widescreen support.

It's not so much a complaint, rather an observation that this thread was posted 4 years ago and something which appears to be rather simple to fix hasn't been done. It just makes the site look a bit shoddy, in a wholly quaint way of course.