[BNM] 760px to fit 800px screens (was css miz)

[Pete Dowdell]

> Interesting. I've been given as PSD layout that is 780px When I queried the
> wisdom of this the designer explained that the resulting jpeg was visible in
> their laptop so this means it's OK for everyone as laptops have small
>   

Does that not actually mean they are designing for no-horizontal-scroll 
in 800px or wider monitors?  They may not think that's what they mean....

That would seem like a reasonable target spec these days, mobile devices 
aside. 

Page printability would be another factor, and that's a smaller width 
(er, 640px?), although I am not up to speed with current browser 
printing and their ability to scale to fit, etc.

If you have a design that accomodates an additional media=print 
stylesheet for printing that's, er, unusual, at least, if you are 
working on a designer-lead project.

Which, going further aside, isn't necessarily a bad thing : that is, a 
designer-lead project.  Obviously codeheads don't want to start work 
until they have the one true (complete) specification document but in 
the real world and the pond-level I operate in, that virtually never 
happens.  I mostly work with the PSD doc from the designer as *the* 
specification, backed up with a description of the backend functionality 
that I am hired to create (that goes in my quotation doc)...but, done 
well, a PSD can visually represent almost all aspects of the 
functionality of a site.

So: PSD as spec doc, the pragmatic solution....I suspect this is modus 
operandi for a lot of people on this list anyway.

I digress...soz

Pete