>I picked this up from http://www.WebSiteJournal.com. About 60% of web users
>have monitors equal to or smaller than 15".
>
>To me this emphasizes that, for general interest sites, one should still
>not design pages wider than about 600 pixels. And I think it will be years
>before more than half of web users have monitors 17" and greater.
>
I'm not sure if the size of the monitor can be equated with a pixel size.
Ok... it will have a big influence on what is readable but both of my 15"
monitors are run at 800x600 (832x624).. not 640x480, while my 17" is at
1152x864 and the 12" is at 512x384. I know people who run 17" ones at
640x480... very easy to read!
All the above doesn't mean that I don't make sure my sites are 580-600 or
so... (plus all the other bits about Lynx etc)
I just though I'd make an observation that 15" doesn't equate to 640x480
and infact isn't 15" just a different measurement of 14" or was that 14" a
different measurement of 13" because I remember my Mac monitor suffering
some sort of advertising hype size increase while I was sleeping one night.
Also I don't see that using more of the screen, if it were available, is
necessarily a good thing or something to hope for in the future. I like the
way I can have many browser windows open at once and position them around
the screen. I'd love to be able to reduce them like a graphics package does
(eg photoshop) and have them spread over the screen like cards that I can
expand (zoom) when needed (does Opera do that?). I have the habit, when
researching, of opening many pages each in a new window and then the new
pages are being downloaded while I'm reading.
Possibly a lot of this can be written off as "depends". I tend to use the
net to find out stuff... not to buy stuff. I often need to print it. I even
came across a site the other day that was interesting, with no vertical
scrolling... all horizontal scrolling.
http://arts.abc.net.au/headspace/triplej/creatures/scorcese/default.htm
ttfn
Bruce
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