On Tue, 24 Jan 2012, Ghodmode wrote:
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Felix Miata <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2012/01/23 10:35 (GMT+0800) Ghodmode composed:
960px is a good max width... for most site visitors.
...where "most" is as little as 50% + 1 of today's visitors. I consider that
a gross exaggeration except in cases where you know your demographic
includes no netbook or handheld devices. At the other end are today's high
resolution users, and tomorrow's much higher resolution users. IOW, the size
of a px, until such future time as a CSS px and a device px are normally not
identical, and probably even after that time for a long time to come, if not
indefinitely, is an unknown size that bears an unknowable relationship to
legibility and usability on users' screens, because px size depends on px
density, which varies considerably among environments.
I don't know about the original poster's target demographic, but 960px
works well on a modern computer
It doesn't work well for me, and it works even less well for a
friend who needs to crank the font size even more than I do.
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