Digital Web has a new article on designing for the wider screens that many computers have.  My D810 laptop has a widescreen.  The author’s solution is to use Javascript to check the screen resolution and then have different style sheets for the different resolutions to maximize the space.  I would like to investigate it further.

My first thought is that I like it better than the other solutions that I have seen which is to have a “liquid” layout.  The thing I do not like about that is that I like a smaller width for the content area.  The “wide screen” solution keeps a fixed width on the content area but brings other areas of the page into the “empty space” of the wider screens.