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"ROI"? MS made the vast amount of their money making reliable, easy to use
software. If they start designing their software for people only with your
setup...ROI will stand for "right out of the industry".
 
mark,
i've come in on this thread a little late. can you give me a link to a
resource where it explains how to set up a system like you're using
(multiple monitors etc.) for windows OS?
Thanks,
chris
 
Jane said:
"ROI"? MS made the vast amount of their money making reliable, easy
to use software. If they start designing their software for people
only with your setup...ROI will stand for "right out of the industry".
news:[email protected]...
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My last try. ;-) Don't bother replying if you disagree.

The average automobile user's need is satisfied with a sedan, minivan or
SUV. But there are people who have job requirements above and beyond the
"average." NASCAR drivers have to go as fast as they can for 500 or 600
miles in one session. People hauling fresh produce from Florida to Maine in
January need to haul a lot, and the vehicle needs a place for one of the
drivers to sleep so they can keep rolling 24 hours a day and not have the
tomatoes rot on the way.

Should NASCAR drivers and long-haul truckers use a Ford Windstar minivan
because that's all "Jim in finance needs?" Sure, the NASCAR driver CAN
drive 500 miles in the Windstar, but she isn't going to come in first. For
hauling tomatoes to Maine, I'd guess it would take about 30 more Windstars
and 60 drivers than a single 18 wheeler.

Programmers CAN use "average" computers, and given enough time, do good
work. It's not the best use of anyone's time or money IMHO. I know it
really holds me back when I have to go on site and can only use my dual
1600x1200 laptop or horror of horrors, a 1024x768 single-monitor client's
computer. I don't get anywhere near as much work done in the same amount of
time (IF I'm doing something that profits from having more space. Not
everything does.)

Questions: Do you habitually test web pages in 4 different browsers? Think
the web sites might work better if everyone did?

IMO developers are like chefs. Meals in fancy restaurants tend to not be
cooked on the plate that's served to the customer. <g>

My sincere best wishes for the success of your work.

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Here's something that might be helpful. Whether it works on your computer
depends on how the dialog box is written, the video drivers, and the
operating system.

1. Click on the dialog box to make sure it's selected.
2. Press <Alt><space> to bring up the dialog box's system menu. If it has
one,
3. Press the "M" key (for Move)
4. Press the <Up Arrow> key several times.
5. Press <Enter> to get out of Move mode.

How far up it goes depends on the things mentioned above. On my WinXP
laptop I can move this message completely off the top of its single screen.
On my Win2k desktop, Windows prevents it from going above the top of the
screen. Give it a shot -- it might work for you.

-- Mark
 
chris said:
mark,
i've come in on this thread a little late. can you give me a link to
a resource where it explains how to set up a system like you're using
(multiple monitors etc.) for windows OS?
Thanks,
chris
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This is the best place to start that I know of.
http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/


Basically, in Win2k and WinXP you just plug in video cards & the right
drivers & the OS takes it from there.

Motherboard VGA adapters can sometimes interfere with installation of more
video cards. My "home" computer two computers ago was a homebuilt 233 MHz
with motherboard VGA. I could not find a combination of cards that would
reliably boot more than two monitors in both Win98SE and Win2k. (The
motherboard VGA could not be disabled.)

My current "work" desktop is a Dell "workstation," selected because there
is no motherboard VGA. It's quad monitor capable but I just have 3
connected now.

-- Mark
 
Wow. I went home from work last night thinking I had helped, and came in
this morning to all of this...

I read through all the threads and decided to come back up to yours because
you had the original question. I would like to note for others that may
read this that I said very explicitly that the size of your monitor is not
the issue, it is the resolution you use that causes this problem.

Anyway, all I was trying to do was give a little background as to how this
decision was made, but obviously I started somewhat of a firestorm. As is
the case with every decision made, only time will tell whether it was the
right decision or not.

Back to what I was trying to say originally (apparently not very well): when
making this kind of decision it is really not important what the people
browsing to your site use for their resolution, what is important is what
the vast majority of designers use as theirs. In consideration of the
possible differences, we created a new feature which allows you to design
pages for people running at 800x600 (or any resolution for that matter),
even though you may be designing using 1024x768 or 768x1024 or 1600x1200 or
whatever. If you haven't checked it out, it's actually pretty neat (from
Design view, click on View > Page Size).
 
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