Forum width restrictions

[rudgej]

Is there a reason for limiting width of these forums to 770px as I this seems unnecessarily restrictive given that many people will be running at resolutions of 1024x768 and 1280x1024 or above?

Why not define the width to make use of what is available instead?

[Carbone]

Perhaps to make sure pages don't become too slow to load if bigger files are accepted.. ?

Ray

[Mary]

We are also looking at a form not the whole page. The form is set to display in the center to all viewing area choices. Different browsers, different monitors, different resolutions etc makes it important to create a viable format for everyone. :)

[rudgej]

Thanks for the replies. :)

Ray, the total size of page to load (in kb) would be no different if the <table> element was allowed to be 100% rather than 770px.

Mary, here's an example <table> element setting from http://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/:

<table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center">

This site's equivalent:

<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="770">

As you can see, the main difference is just the width parameter and apart from that, both forums use vBulletin 3.5.1 forum software, and the photography forum runs quite happily in a range of browsers.