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brkkab123 brkkab123 is offline
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      10-16-2010
I recently switched from a old Dell regular lcd montor to a new Viewsonic wide screen lcd monitor. On the Dell montor the image on Bing's search page filled the whole page. Since switching to the new wide screen led lcd monitor the image doesn't fill the whole page anymore. Why is that ? My monitor settings are set correctly at 1920 x 1080 which is the recommended settings for it.
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      10-16-2010
That's just the way the website was made. For the background image thing to work, they can't have it scaling. It would look good anyways

I'm a web dev, and I can tell you, scalable websites:
1. Are a PITA to make.
2. Look aweful.
3. Scale badly :P

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      10-17-2010
That's not the way it looked on my old Dell 4.3 15" LCD. The gray color wasn't there, only the Bing page picture that's changed daily was there before. That really makes no sense to me considering wide screen lcd's were available and widely used before Bing existed.
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That's just the way the website was made. For the background image thing to work, they can't have it scaling. It would look good anyways

I'm a web dev, and I can tell you, scalable websites:
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2. Look aweful.
3. Scale badly :P
 
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      10-17-2010
Is your zoom level in I.E. set to 100%?
 
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      10-17-2010
I agree with Fire Cat. I also do some web designing and the sizing issue is definitely on Bing's end, as my monitor resolution is less than yours (1366 x 768) and the Bing site has the same gray margins on both sides of the search image. I have seen other sites that do not display properly, so this isn't an isolated incident. It IS a reflection of mediocrity in site management.

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      10-17-2010
I looked in Internet Options different categories. I couldn't find anything to do with Zoom.
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      10-17-2010
Yeah, on my Dell 15" LCD at 1024 x 768 the image filled the whole page. Maybe the Bing team had a Vista moment on this one. Though, I did like Vista better than XP. More Secure definitely.
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I agree with Fire Cat. I also do some web designing and the sizing issue is definitely on Bing's end, as my monitor resolution is less than yours (1366 x 768) and the Bing site has the same gray margins on both sides of the search image. I have seen other sites that do not display properly, so this isn't an isolated incident. It IS a reflection of mediocrity in site management.
 
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      10-17-2010
Hey TorrentG my center mouse wheel stopped scrolling in IE, too. It worked 2 hours ago. I've got the correct driver according to Microsoft IntelliPoint 8.0 x64 for the first series of the wireless Optical Desktop. We're talking 2005 version.
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Mouse issue was solved.
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Hey TorrentG my center mouse wheel stopped scrolling in IE, too. It worked 2 hours ago. I've got the correct driver according to Microsoft IntelliPoint 8.0 x64 for the first series of the wireless Optical Desktop. We're talking 2005 version.
 
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      10-17-2010
Your old screen resolution was probably smaller than 955x600 which is about the size of their image, now your screen is bigger so the image is surrounded by the web pages gray background. On my 2048x1152 display I see huge amounts of gray around the pic.
 
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