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In ancient times – about 1995 or so – we early Internet adopters were promised that all the inflated costs and redundancies of Web use, like multiple browsers, expensive monitors and competing standards, would be settled issues by The New Millennium. Well, “TNM” arrived a while ago, and we’re still seeing poor Web design for wide displays and cross-browser support. That’s a direct result of more, not fewer, redundancies or, as customers might call them, “choices.” Today there are big and small monitors, monitors with 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios, stripped-down and bulked-up browsers, and all sorts of designers who don’t know how to make one Web page look the same on all of them. Continue reading →