17th June 2002

Typing is such a drag. Or, at least, it can be - literally! Fire up Internet Explorer, navigate to a page which contains some kind of form, select a string of text, then drag and drop that selection into a field. Neat, huh? Now, do you sacrifice Web page layout for the lowest common screen size? This Lockergnomie may have a solution: "A lot of Web designers have asked for a way to preview their site(s) in other screen resolutions the easy way, without keep changing their own monitor settings every time. Of course, one way is to resize the browser's window into the specific sizes - like 800x600 or 640x480 - using bookmarklets. Browsers like Opera 6.0 and Mozilla 1.0 have a zoom feature built- in, but Internet Explorer needs to rely on a CSS extension. Try adding this to your body element: "zoom: [value]" (replace the [value] with either integers or percentage values, sans quotes). Now, test your math skills! Calculate the percentages needed to emulate resolutions on your screen. For example, if you're at 1024x768 and you want to see your Web page in 800x600, use a 72% zoom value. To see your site in 640x480, use a 40% value."