Is there away or an action in freeway to make the site conform to the settings on the computer viewing the site. For example when I create a site and preview in a browser or upload the site and look at it in explorer, safari and firefox on my computer it will get out of line on some other computer running different screen resolution.
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To be excruciatingly correct, all sites conform to the settings of the browser that is currently viewing them. Not all browsers have the same internal style rules set as a default, though, and typography can vary wildly by platform and version, which is why Windows browsers show type with a different measure than Mac browsers.
Further to this point, browsers are not paper and ink – there can and (if you want to be honest) SHOULD be differences based on local settings and expectations.
My friend Beverly has advanced macular degeneration, and she is blind in one eye and “hand waving” in the other. I try to remember her when I build sites, and ensure that her screen reader can make sense of what’s on the page and speak it to her in a reasonable order. I also remember when she was still “count fingers” in that one good eye; when she used a magnifier to read print books and a tweaked browser with 96pt text fonts to read the Web. If your site can’t react to that sort of extreme adjustment (or even a minor difference of leading and character spacing) then you need to think a little deeper about what you’re building here.
Now that I’m off my soap-box, though, can you show an example of what you’re after here? When you say you want the site to conform to the settings on the computer viewing the site, what exactly do you mean? Should it look precisely the same on all browsers, all platforms, like a PDF would? Or should it look like other sites on that same browser would?
Remember, nobody but you will ever see the site in more than one browser. (Where by nobody, I mean only us geeks who care and worry about that sort of detail.) Most people do not understand the concept of a “browser” as a separate piece of software that they launch and run and interact with (they just “open the Web”). Only a few realize that you can install different versions of a browser, or different browser applications. I deal with this all the time when fielding complaints from clients. These are high-level business computing users, with Master’s degrees in business or science, and reasonably young enough to have known little of the word before the Web – and they still don’t grasp this basic concept.
So while you may know that there’s a better way for the site to look than some schmo stuck firmly in the past with IE 6, remember – they have never seen a site that wasn’t fundamentally broken by their lack of a modern browser. Your site will be only one in a long line of wacky-looking sites that resemble an experiment with a newspaper and a Cuisinart. Only the simplest, lowest-common-denominator sites ever look to them anything like what other people will see in a standards-compliant browser, so unless you want to “dumb down” your design to 1997 standards, you have to let them go.
Walter
On Oct 18, 2012, at 9:27 AM, wjamer wrote:
Is there away or an action in freeway to make the site conform to the settings on the computer viewing the site. For example when I create a site and preview in a browser or upload the site and look at it in explorer, safari and firefox on my computer it will get out of line on some other computer running different screen resolution.
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