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Old 02-01-2007, 02:08 PM
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Just checking some Irish web sites and came across a site with the following top of the page...

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ATTENTION! This site looks best when viewed with screen resolution set to 800x600 pixels. Your screen resolution is 1024x768. Please change your screen resolution. Thank you!


Sure, anything else? Want me to stand on my head?

It wouldn't be fair to link to the site in question but I just had to post this.
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Old 02-01-2007, 02:22 PM
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I have to believe that eventually, the weak will die out. Eventually, the world will be so educated about the web that this sort of thing just wont fly.

But go on, give us a link!
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I have to believe that eventually, the weak will die out. Eventually, the world will be so educated about the web that this sort of thing just wont fly.
Yeah, but I really wish it would hurry up.
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WTF?? And how many people are going to go through the hassle of resizing their screens to see one site?

How about a site with...
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ATTENTION! This site looks best when viewed with screen resolution set to 5800x3600 pixels. Your screen resolution is too small. Please buy a new monitor. Thank you!
It makes as much sense.
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But go on, give us a link!

In fairness to kairoscomms.ie, it looks like a self made site by folks who aren't that familiar with current design practices.
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And they have not seemed to nail the canonical-URL issue yet either.
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Ah Kairos, my class made a television programme as part of film studies there.
Blizzard Of Odd was filmed there as well.
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You get a lot of that kind of rubbish on sites of all shapes and sizes

My favourite alternative is:

"best viewed with a browser"
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