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Tom Pepper Willett
I think Jon was referring to pcs coming with the resolution pre-set. Now,
the pc manfucaturers are factory setting at the higher resolution. Prior to
that, they were presetting at 800 x 600. And prior to that, 600 x 480.
It's my experience that many people leave their monitors on the factory
pre-set, because they don't know any different, and don't know that they can
change them or how to change them.
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Tom "Pepper" Willett
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
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| What do you mean "buy a PC with an 800 * 600 screen"?
|
| My hardware is certainly capable of other display resolutions but that
| doesn't mean I have it set to the max. Like Tom, my resolution is 800 x
| 600 because of readability / vision.
|
| Designing for 800 x 600 is a good idea given the 40-50% of surfers still
| using that resolution -- those using higher resolutions can still view
| the site fine in a window or full screen. Doing it the other way would
| mean that 40-50% of visitors to your site would be required to
| side-scroll line to line... a site has got to be extremely unique and
| important to me to put up with that for more than about... oh... zero
| seconds.
|
|
| | > Which statistics - your own site(s) or "stats" on some out of date web
| link?
| > It's almost impossible to buy a PC with an 800 * 600 screen these
| days - I'm
| > not arguing for cutting out the 800 * 600 guys or the IE5 guys etc but
| if
| > you sell to consumers you're probably selling to people with a
| reasonably
| > decent computer
| >
| > --
| > Cheers,
| > Jon
| > Microsoft MVP
| >
| >
| > | > > Yes, approximately 40% use 800 x 600, according to statistics.
| > > Many do because of eyesite issues.
| > > Including me ;-)
| > > --
| > > ===
| > > Tom "Pepper" Willett
| > > Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
| > > ---
| > > About FrontPage 2003:
| > > http://office.microsoft.com/home/office.aspx?assetid=FX01085802
| > > FrontPage 2003 Product Information:
| > > http://www.microsoft.com/office/frontpage/prodinfo/default.mspx
| > > Understanding FrontPage:
| > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/frontpage/
| > > FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions Support Center:
| > > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;en-us;fp10se
| > > ===
| > > | > > | Hi
| > > | Does anyone actually use a browser resolution of 600*800 anymore?
| it
| > > seems
| > > | to me that have we created a standard based on old monitor
| > > specifications.
| > > | isn't it time we started using all of the browser window
| > > | Paul M
| > > |
| > > |
| > >
| > >
| >
| >
|
|
the pc manfucaturers are factory setting at the higher resolution. Prior to
that, they were presetting at 800 x 600. And prior to that, 600 x 480.
It's my experience that many people leave their monitors on the factory
pre-set, because they don't know any different, and don't know that they can
change them or how to change them.
--
===
Tom "Pepper" Willett
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
---
About FrontPage 2003:
http://office.microsoft.com/home/office.aspx?assetid=FX01085802
FrontPage 2003 Product Information:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/frontpage/prodinfo/default.mspx
Understanding FrontPage:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/frontpage/
===
| What do you mean "buy a PC with an 800 * 600 screen"?
|
| My hardware is certainly capable of other display resolutions but that
| doesn't mean I have it set to the max. Like Tom, my resolution is 800 x
| 600 because of readability / vision.
|
| Designing for 800 x 600 is a good idea given the 40-50% of surfers still
| using that resolution -- those using higher resolutions can still view
| the site fine in a window or full screen. Doing it the other way would
| mean that 40-50% of visitors to your site would be required to
| side-scroll line to line... a site has got to be extremely unique and
| important to me to put up with that for more than about... oh... zero
| seconds.
|
|
| | > Which statistics - your own site(s) or "stats" on some out of date web
| link?
| > It's almost impossible to buy a PC with an 800 * 600 screen these
| days - I'm
| > not arguing for cutting out the 800 * 600 guys or the IE5 guys etc but
| if
| > you sell to consumers you're probably selling to people with a
| reasonably
| > decent computer
| >
| > --
| > Cheers,
| > Jon
| > Microsoft MVP
| >
| >
| > | > > Yes, approximately 40% use 800 x 600, according to statistics.
| > > Many do because of eyesite issues.
| > > Including me ;-)
| > > --
| > > ===
| > > Tom "Pepper" Willett
| > > Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
| > > ---
| > > About FrontPage 2003:
| > > http://office.microsoft.com/home/office.aspx?assetid=FX01085802
| > > FrontPage 2003 Product Information:
| > > http://www.microsoft.com/office/frontpage/prodinfo/default.mspx
| > > Understanding FrontPage:
| > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/frontpage/
| > > FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions Support Center:
| > > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;en-us;fp10se
| > > ===
| > > | > > | Hi
| > > | Does anyone actually use a browser resolution of 600*800 anymore?
| it
| > > seems
| > > | to me that have we created a standard based on old monitor
| > > specifications.
| > > | isn't it time we started using all of the browser window
| > > | Paul M
| > > |
| > > |
| > >
| > >
| >
| >
|
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