Re: [WSG] screen resolution and standards

2004-09-25 Thread James Ellis
Mordechai Peller wrote: Lea de Groot wrote: Yes, speculation is useless. One of my clients, for the month of August shows the follow figures in their logs: Count | % of screen used by window Interesting, but you're missing a critical piece of data. Without knowing what their resolution is at

Re: [WSG] screen resolution and standards

2004-09-25 Thread Mordechai Peller
Lea de Groot wrote: Yes, speculation is useless. One of my clients, for the month of August shows the follow figures in their logs: Count | % of screen used by window Interesting, but you're missing a critical piece of data. Without knowing what their resolution is at 100%, the value of the

Re: [WSG] screen resolution and standards

2004-09-24 Thread Lea de Groot
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 03:16:47 +0300, Rimantas Liubertas wrote: > Precisely. Only I yet have to see someone who runs his/her browser NOT > maximazed. > That's around my workplace. > So better not to speculate on this issue. Yes, speculation is useless. One of my clients, for the month of August sho

Re: [WSG] screen resolution and standards

2004-09-24 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 09:02:14 +1000, Gary Menzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another thing that is often forgotten is that many people DONT run > applications (which also means browsers) at full screen resolution. > Many people still run lots of overlapping windows (the "messy desktop" > approach).

Re: [WSG] screen resolution and standards

2004-09-24 Thread Gary Menzel
Another thing that is often forgotten is that many people DONT run applications (which also means browsers) at full screen resolution. Many people still run lots of overlapping windows (the "messy desktop" approach). So - it's all well and good to not design for 640x480 - but there will be lots o

Re: [WSG] screen resolution and standards

2004-09-24 Thread russ - maxdesign
Opera-based devices seem to support well but some others do not. Patrick has done a lot of research and could tell us real stats: http://www.htmldog.com/ptg/archives/55.php Worth reading: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/pocket/ http://my.opera.com/community/dev/device/css-media/ While inte

Re: [WSG] screen resolution and standards

2004-09-24 Thread Rick Faaberg
On 9/24/04 2:39 AM "russ - maxdesign" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent this out: > However, you should keep in mind hand-held devices which are on the increase > in a major way. They have tiny screens. This means we really have to think > outside the standards screen sizes. A good mind-shift article is he

Re: [WSG] screen resolution and standards

2004-09-24 Thread russ - maxdesign
A lot of this comes down the the site and its intended audience. However, you should keep in mind hand-held devices which are on the increase in a major way. They have tiny screens. This means we really have to think outside the standards screen sizes. A good mind-shift article is here: http://www

[WSG] screen resolution and standards

2004-09-24 Thread john
Okay, my first question. ;) Screen resolution: back in the day, designers made their sites look good on 640x480 because that's what most people used (only the *ultra geek* used anything higher than 800x600 ;) ). Then, of course, everybody went up to 800x600, and now most laptops (and perhaps desk