Board Thread:Darwin/@comment-5275700-20131115094714/@comment-961279-20131118004815

Over on the Backgrounds and skins message, it gave some more details about what the split looks like and how it functions. If you don't care about what goes along the top and don't use transparency to let the background image show through the content area, couldn't you just use about a 350x1100 background image and let the system split it in the middle to make it as wide as it needs?

The maximum width of the content area will be 1600px, so on most monitors you only have to worry about 170px on each side. With the 350x1100 image, that gives you a 5px buffer on each side. When I took measurements off the Muppet Wiki, it wasn't until I stretched the browser window to over 2010px wide (spanning two monitors) before any extra of the background became visible, and the background stopped being revealed at 2404px.

Are there any stats on what monitor resolutions people are viewing wikis on? I've seen them on the web browsers being used, but not resolutions. It would be helpful to know stats like 0.7% of the viewers of your wiki have a resolution of 1920x1080 or higher, or that 1.9% of all visitors to all Wikia wikis are running that resolution or higher. Then we could know if we even need to bother with a wider background than what I just described.