Safari and website screen sizes

Hi,
Why is it that this website (the apple discussion forum) displays nicely across the full width of my imac but most other websites are narrow, barely reaching halfway across. The safari window goes all the way across but the page content doesn't. for example expedia.co.uk or itsagoal.com don't display in widescreen.
Is this a website fault or a browser limitation?
Thanks
Lee

What you are seeing is the result of different web-page design philosophies.
There are two basic ways to layout a web page.
At one extreme is a dynamic layout which assumes that it cannot be know what resolution the viewer will be using or what size window the browser will be opened to or resized to. This kind of web page will flow and resize itself as you drag your window around adjusting it to different sizes.
At the other extreme is the page-layout model derived from old-fashioned hard-copy layout practices in which the designer wants complete control of what appears where. These pages will not resize as you adjust the size of your browser window, but will either cause the browser to add horizontal scroll bars if the window is made to small or will leave blank areas to the right if the window is made to large. Some designers limit the width of their pages so that they will fit in a browser window at a medium resolution, meaning that if you have a high resolution or a wide-screen monitor you will see the blank areas to the right.
Some designers compromise between the two extremes so that some elements will flow as you resize the browser window while others will not.

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