I thought I made my point in the original post. While I agree that
sites should work at any resolution, and some (many possibly) people
don't browse with browser maximised. What I can't do is supply all the
images for a site at 10x10 pixels in case someone using a PDA wants to
view the site. What I CAN do is try to make the site presentable at any
resolution and optimize the images etc. for certain resolutions. In
order to satisfy the majority in this case, I would like to have the
figures as a guide. It is also useful to tell clients that "What you
want won't work becuase only x% of people have the same resolution as
you" Rather than make up the figures, it is better to have hard data.
I AM AWARE of the limitations of using screen-resolution data. But it
doesn't completely invalidate the collection of such data.
Stephen
Lachlan Hunt wrote:
Stephen Stagg wrote:
Slightly off-list but important all the same.
I traditionally design sites to look good at 800x600 and best at
1024x768. Now, tho, it seems as if users visiting with resolutions
of 800x600 are around the 1% margin...
It is the viewport size that matters, the screen resolution is
essentially irrelevant. It is an invalid assumption that everyone
surfs with a maximised browser window; or even if it is, that it takes
up all the space. The browser may also have a sidebar or anything
else which can take up any amount of space.
Personally, my screen resolution is 1280x1024, but my browser window
is usually around 900x900 - I do not like a browser taking up my whole
screen. In fact, that is even narrower than a maximised browser on
1024x768.
dd a sidebar to that, which would be roughly 200px wide when open,
that leaves less than 700px width for the web site to play with, which
is almost half the width of my screen resolution. So please
understand that any screen resolution statistics you find will be
nothing short of completely useless.
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