[Irl-dean] screen resolution

[brendan spillane]

Hi there,

I hope to have time to add to this discussion later but I usually
refer to http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp for my
stats.

They may not be exactly accurate but I would believe the trends the represent

Best,

Brendan


On 04/05/07, Barry McMullin <barry.mcmullin at dcu.ie> wrote:
> On Fri, 4 May 2007, Cormac wrote:
>
> > How do people feel about screen resolution these days?
> >
> > Obviously the standard for a long time was the 800 * 600 page layout
> > format.
> >
> > Personally, I am still quite happy with that, what do people think?
>
> For me, it is a bad idea to base a design on *any* specific pixel
> resolution; rather, the best designs adapt effectively to the
> widest possible range of client preferences, specifically
> including resolution. Of course, a design may work better or
> worse across this range, and there will be *some* limits to the
> practical range for particular pages or applications; but I would
> generally rank optimisation for "client side adaptability" much
> higher than optimisation at any single resolution.
>
> Of course, this directly helps with accessibility; but it helps a
> much wider variety of users than that. Small-screen users - PDAs,
> phones etc. are an obvious example ... and OK, I guess I am
> biased by having just invested in a Nokia N800 "internet tablet".
> This is a thing of beauty (at least for a tech junkie like me),
> with very high resolution for any "pocket" device; but even it is
> still maxed out at 800x600.
>
>
> > (a) The % using 800*600 is going down (approx 16%) and that if
> > 81% have monitors with a higher screen resolution then it is ok
> > to have a layout designed for 1024 width.
>
> I don't know where these figures come from (mobile devices
> certainly seem to me to be under-represented); and, as Cormac notes,
> they anyway neglect users running browsers at anything less than
> full screen.  But even more to the point, if you are designing
> sites/resources with any significant longevity (and many web
> resources turn out to have much longer lifetimes than
> "originally" expected) then it is surely a bad idea to make
> designs rely in any critical way on any single snapshot in time
> of user agent profiles.
>
> Just my 2c ...
>
> Best - Barry.
>
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