Browser habits

Full screened google chrome on PC - sometimes its windowed
safari on iphone5
IE on xbox one

Firefox pc full
Chrome or Firefox android
Never IE at least until their new version is released and we know what it's going to be like.

Chrome Windowed (No Extensions) - General Use as it has all my **** saved
Opera Windowed (Turbo Mode) - For Torrenting - Incognito
Photon (for Android) - For Developing/Testing Flash - Incognito

Only time I use IE, Firefox or Safari is to check the comparability of my browser kits.

IE11 at home & work. Edge isn't good enough yet, it's fast but lacking options & customisation atm.

Edge on phone (W10M).

Google Chrome.
For life.

Ardbeg said:

I'm going to attempt a web page with fluid css to allow for varying sizes of browser / media.

Can people reply with how and what they browse with, mobile, pc, screen res etc., so I can get an idea of what a gamer community is likely to use.
Also info on whether you have your browser set to full screen or maybe use IE and have a shortcut sidebar etc.

Cheers.

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You don't need to know any of that when designing a website to work on various formats, most sites now use responsive design for multi platform integration. This is a prime example of a responsive designed website - http://www.esports-social.eu/ (It's still a work in progress), notice the design changes dependent on the type of device it is used on.

Chrome - PC
Opera (Turbo Mode) - for torrents
Safari - Iphone6

Ardbeg said:

Yep. Thanks for the reply.
I'm aware of the capabilities for the design, much of the reason behind my question was to see if it warranted such a design or something less complicated.

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Using responsive design takes away the complication of web design, allowing the design of the site to flow through to various formats. A great place to start, is using a framework such as UIKit or Twitter Framework. Most designers now use someone else's framework, to build in responsive design and there are some fantastic ones to use.

Tai said:

Scrolling your site seems horribly sluggish

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The joys of using a cheap host I'm afraid.

Ardbeg said:

Yep. Thanks for the reply.
I'm aware of the capabilities for the design, much of the reason behind my question was to see if it warranted such a design or something less complicated.

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Far said:

Its nothing to do with your host, it's the terribly designed website. I expect the culprit is the code below.

Code:

$("body").niceScroll({
                                    touchbehavior:false,
                                    cursorcolor:"#999999",
                                    cursoropacitymin:0,
                                    cursoropacitymax:1,
                                    cursorwidth:6,
                                    cursorborder:"none",
                                    cursorborderradius:"7px"
                                });

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No it's the host provider, as the site isn't collocated and so loading directly from one source. Has nothing to do with the coding of the site, just as the site source doesn't show you everything from the point of the site design.

Ardbeg said:

Yep. Thanks for the reply.
I'm aware of the capabilities for the design, much of the reason behind my question was to see if it warranted such a design or something less complicated.

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Far said:

not sure why colocation would make any difference to the speed of your scrolling (overall loading, maybe). Its a javascript plugin which is causing that.

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The site is on a shared hosting account, which means scripts such as JS are loaded directly from the hosting account on which causes script lag. Due to restriction from the host, JS takes longer to load and is sluggish. Where as our other site which also uses the same scripts and uses colocation as it is hosted in both Europe and the US, the response from those scripts isn't sluggish in the slightest. So yes I know it's the host causing the issue, hence the site is being migrated to our other host.

Ardbeg said:

Yep. Thanks for the reply.
I'm aware of the capabilities for the design, much of the reason behind my question was to see if it warranted such a design or something less complicated.

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Far said:

Really?

You're using this joomla template

http://www.demo.joomforest.com/?template=jf_chrome

This also has the same slow scrolling. Due to the same javascript plugin.

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Scrolling on that is fine for me.

Ardbeg said:

Yep. Thanks for the reply.
I'm aware of the capabilities for the design, much of the reason behind my question was to see if it warranted such a design or something less complicated.

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Tai said:

Ironically that page doesn't load for me in Chrome. Definitely the same slow scrolling in other browsers though

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What browser are you using, as I will need to investigate this further and works fine in chrome on this end.