IE wasts a lot of desk space

[Walter R.]

Using Win XP Pro and IE6. I changed my screen resolution form 800x600 to
1024x768.

Some websites fill the whole screen, others, like the NY Times, fill only
2/3 to 3/4 of the screen. The right margin of the screen remains blank. (1/3
to 1/4)

This appears to be a great waste of screen real estate.

Is there any way to make *all* websites fill the whole screen?

Thank you

 

[Charlie Tame]

Not if the website designer has set it, no, and sometimes you have to set it
or lose formatting.

800 X 600 was the defacto standard - most machine can do that but the older
ones sometimes can't go higher and 15 inch monitors don't suit everybody at
1024 X 768, although that's what I use because I want the spare desktop
space.

As an aside I have never understood why people buy a system with stackable.
sizeable and moveable windows and then have everything full screen. True it
works that way using the taskbar buttons but it's always seemed to me a
waste of real estate in the opposite sense

Here is a page to play with, look at the example local page and view source
so you can see how websites set page size.

http://www.charlietame.org/ie/windowsize.htm

Charlie

 

[Sparda]

Using Win XP Pro and IE6. I changed my screen resolution form
800x600 to
1024x768.

Some websites fill the whole screen, others, like the NY
Times, fill only
2/3 to 3/4 of the screen. The right margin of the screen
remains blank. (1/3
to 1/4)

This appears to be a great waste of screen real estate.

Is there any way to make *all* websites fill the whole screen?

Thank you

No.