On 2012/01/24 19:15 (GMT+0800) Ghodmode composed:
I don't know about the original poster's target demographic, but 960px
works well on a modern computer or a modern mobile device....
Debatable...
I don't know about the current generation of netbooks, but I expect
resolutions to go up.
High resolution users can see and use a 960px wide web site quite well also.
Clearly not...
Here are a few real-world examples of fixed width sites:
http://www.mashable.com 972px
http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/SC/sc-mashable2560-01.jpg
http://www.stackoverflow.com 960px
http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/SC/sc-stackoverflow2560-01.jpg
http://developers.whatwg.org/ 820px
http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/SC/sc-whatwgdevel2560-01.jpg
http://lifehacker.com/ 980px
http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/SC/sc-lifehacker2560-01.jpg
http://developer.yahoo.com/ 974px
http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/SC/sc-yahoodevel2560-01.jpg
http://paulirish.com 936px
http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/SC/sc-paulirish2560-01.jpg
These are some really successful web sites with talented developers
using fixed width layouts. Their sites all look great everywhere.
Maybe you need to define what you mean by "talented", "successful" and "look
great". Clearly here these sites don't make much of anything big enough to
evaluate, certainly providing little evidence of enough talent to both
understand and care about the impact of screen density on px layouts from the
perspective of non-designer web users. NAICT from here they all look like
they were designed for print.
Well, em is obviously a better unit in most cases, but it doesn't have
that much to do with the original question. What's a good target
width?
In most cases it's about appropriate line lengths, which are always
measurable in em. Not everyone agrees on what is too long or not. If you want
15 word lines and two columns straddling the center with 2-4 word lines, 60em
or so may be a good starting point.
What's DTE?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment
It doesn't seem like anything is holding back screen densities. I''m
a novice, but I keep hearing about retina and super amo oled plus and
4k HD displays. It seems like hardware capacity is out-pacing
software capacity.
Your first sentence and third sentence conflict. For the most part, pixel
densities _are_ being held back for lack of software support. For several
years, desktop displays had a fairly wide range of sizes for any given
resolution. More recently the range has been much narrower, with more
discrete resolutions available than previously, and depending on
manufacturer, a range of about 3" or less for each one up to the highest of
the high volume sizes (1920x1080).
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