This might help you, Screen Res is near the bottom somewhere.
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp The latest figures are for July, so its a little out of date.
I agree with Bobs point though, it interesting that we used to design for 800x600 so all our visitors could read our sites without using the scroll bars, now we design so that the content fits comfortably in 800x600 so our uses don't have to move their heads! somewhere between 15 and 25 words per line appears to be comfortable for most people.
Charlie
On 12/15/05, Stephen Stagg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I thought I made my point in the original post. While I agree that
sites should work at any resolution, and some (many possibly) people
don't browse with browser maximised. What I can't do is supply all the
images for a site at 10x10 pixels in case someone using a PDA wants to
view the site. What I CAN do is try to make the site presentable at any
resolution and optimize the images etc. for certain resolutions. In
order to satisfy the majority in this case, I would like to have the
figures as a guide. It is also useful to tell clients that "What you
want won't work becuase only x% of people have the same resolution as
you" Rather than make up the figures, it is better to have hard data.
I AM AWARE of the limitations of using screen-resolution data. But it
doesn't completely invalidate the collection of such data.
Stephen
Lachlan Hunt wrote:
> 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.
>
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