> Do you know what percentage of people browsing the net use > handhelds? I have been unable to find any statistics on it, > but suspect its a very small number.
<snip> > 3. Anything else is a bonus, eg: my personal site is table > free, and scales from very small resoltions to very large > with no problems (AFAIK) because I had the time to make it so. That pretty much sums up my approach as well. I care about things like handhelds when given the opportunity because I'm the kind of person who likes playing with that kind of technology. I have a PDA, and yes, my personal site looks great on it. Really, there are no average users. I spend a great deal of my time working on a Tablet PC, which has a resolution of 1024x768 - but that's actually 768x1024 when I'm holding it in slate mode, using the pen rather than the keyboard (which is most of the time). You'd be amazed at the number of sites that look crap at a smaller width than 800px, even only fractionally smaller. My boss has a 19" LCD monitor, but he hates the high resolution, so he has his fonts set to absolutely massive in both Windows and his browsers, and it's amazing how much havoc that can play with a non-flexible design. We have a client who's elderly father is a director of the company, and so he bought him the best pc available, complete with a 21" CRT. But the old guy is so blind, the resolution is set to 800x600 with large fonts. Looking at web sites on that monster makes me cry. And then I found out the other day I've been working on a site for a guy using an old PowerMac, OS9, and the only browser he had installed was Netscape 4. We just have to work with what we can. K. -- Kay Smoljak Senior Developer/QC Leader/Search Optimisation PerthWeb Pty Ltd - http://www.perthweb.com.au/ Ph: 08 9226 1366 - Fax: 08 9226 1375 ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
