I've been watching this thread as being utterly relevant to what I have been thinking a lot on. A lot I believe still browse at 800, and hating bottom scrollbars (seen wayyy too often, I have been looking for answers.
AN excellent article (see his demo!) is the man in blue: http://www.themaninblue.com/writing/perspective/2004/09/21/ Test the demo at different resolutions...one column text becomes 3 at 1024, one at 800, right menu left aligned etc... This is a very interesting and very relevant topic, no magic answers but I would love to see more solutions...including % margins etc to deal with high res without miles of text. I for one hate seeing narrow sites with yards of blank space, or the sometimes seen left aligned sites on the left even. So far I use fluid widths with the text eaxpanding to fit... Bruce Prochnau BKDesign Solutions ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lachlan Hunt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <wsg@webstandardsgroup.org> Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 9:07 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] Browser Resolutions > 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/ > > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > > ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
