>At 02:59 PM 5/25/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>
>>According to the GVU survey, 40% of users don't know, followed by
>>19% at 800 x 600 and 12% at 640 x 480.
>>
>
>I would assume that the "don't know's" are newbies and probably have 800x600.
>Someone with a 640x480 screen has been around PC longer and is more likely
>to know.
>Just compare with the "dont' know " figures last year.
WRONG.
I work with people everyday who have worked with computers daily for years.
They don't know "alt-tab" .. "alt-control-delete" ... "control-w". In
short, they get their machines as set up my computing central -- and they
don't change a thing.
Same with my friends with older machines -- they don't know a darn bit more
than newbies - they bought the machine to do a job. It does the job.
I mean, who walks around knowing off the top of their head the size tires
on their car? It's the same thing to most people.
>Then the next question is how intensively the 640x480 is being used for
>web-surfing.
>
>I notice that more and more web designers start to abandon the format.
Not what Jakob Neilsen says -- his survey says that average width is down
to less than 600.
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