I'm not sure how long the site has done this, as I haven't been on it in a while, but when I visited it today, I got a popup dialog telling me that my resolution is too small. Now, my native resolution is 1280x800 which is above the "required" resolution of 1024x768, however this is somewhat irrelevant because it is the browser size that matters in terms of displaying the page (I understand that you need to have a high enough native resolution in order to have the browser big enough to display the page properly). When this happened, I wasn't particularly surprised or annoyed because I figured that it was just because I was using Safari and that the site hadn't been tested on Safari yet but since the pop up message appeared every time I loaded any page on the site, I decided to figure out the problem.

So, I started up good ol' Firefox and promptly got the same message. At this point I realized something wasn't right so being a bit of a web programmer myself, I dove into the javascript source code to see what the issue was.

I found it. It all came down to the height of my browser. The minimum height for that message to not be displayed was a whopping 600 pixels. even with the browser maximized, it did not achieve this height due to the menu bars and etc. up top.

All this is just a long-winded way of asking why there is even a minimum height for the webpage. Browsers are designed to handle things taller than their actual height so I don't see how making the browser any taller will help it display the page (which is way taller than the current minimum height anyway). I can understand, though, if the minimum is something like 100 pixels, just to make the webpage robust.

I apologize for the Ellen-like rant, but I feel this should be addressed.

Sincerely,
A currently annoyed former team programmer who is trying to view the site in peace but can't

Haha, I remember that code!

Oh how naive...