Hi,
Quote from: Oshyan on February 20, 2009, 11:56:29 PM
I think it is generally good practice to design for 1024x768 or at most 1280x1024. This is not only because the majority of people still do not use higher than 1280x1024, but also because many people do not necessarily browse with their web browser "maximized" or full-screen. This is a surprise to me as I hate not having my browser maximized, but apparently this is common.
I pretty much never have my browsers maximised. A good reason for that is because things become ridiculously wide and harder to read at 1920 x 1200. Plus, you know, I like to do more than one thing at a time ;-).
I always keep 1024x768 in mind as a minimum these days. I have relatives who still use somewhere around that. I have one relative who uses 800 x 600 and has so many toolbars in their browser only about 1/2 the space is actually available for the web pages! It's hard to believe considering they must use other computers at work and such, but some people never quite figure out they can change the screen resolution. I know other people who've been running their LCD monitors at less than the native resolution ( never quite figured out how they changed it in the first place ) so everything looks horribly blurry. When I've changed it for them they're amazed at how much better it looks - "I thought there was something a bit funny about it before" !!! These aren't dumb people either.
I've known people with widescreen LCDs running 4:3 aspect ratios stretched. Mind you, I also known people who stretch 4:3 TV or DVDs on their widescreen TVs so it's "widescreen without those bars". The fact people's faces become mysteriously oval doesn't seem to bother them, or rather it does but they don't figure it out until you mention it.
You shouldn't underestimate how many "ordinary" ( i.e. not as involved with computers as we are ;-) people might still be running CRT monitors ( I was up until my last one died a couple of years ago ), non-widescreen LCDs, LCDs with low native resolutions etc.
Anyway, right now I have monitors on in my office at 1920 x 1200, 1680 x 1050 ( x2 ) , 1440 x 900 and 1280 x 854. Now I type that it seems ridiculous :-).
Regards,
Jo