Stephen Stagg wrote:
Slightly off-list but important all the same.
I traditionally design sites to look good at 800x600 and best at
1024x768. Now, tho, it seems as if users visiting with resolutions of
800x600 are around the 1% margin...
It is the viewport size that matters, the screen resolution is
essentially irrelevant. It is an invalid assumption that everyone surfs
with a maximised browser window; or even if it is, that it takes up all
the space. The browser may also have a sidebar or anything else which
can take up any amount of space.
Personally, my screen resolution is 1280x1024, but my browser window is
usually around 900x900 - I do not like a browser taking up my whole
screen. In fact, that is even narrower than a maximised browser on
1024x768.
dd a sidebar to that, which would be roughly 200px wide when open, that
leaves less than 700px width for the web site to play with, which is
almost half the width of my screen resolution. So please understand
that any screen resolution statistics you find will be nothing short of
completely useless.
--
Lachlan Hunt
http://lachy.id.au/
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