Posted by Animesh K on 07/02/07 18:07

Neredbojias wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 17:48:09 GMT Infant Newbie scribed:
>
>> Do you still design to the 800 x 600 ""STANDARD"" ?
>
> Sort of. Virtually all my site is thumbnail galleries so I use 800 x 600
> as the minimum at which they will display esthetically as I wish. I pretty
> much use 1280 x 1024 as the maximum for this. (I believe the overall
> median is probably 1024 x 768.)
>
> Note that a page must (and does) display correctly at all sizes sans
> horizontal scrollbar within the limits of a single thumb. What is
> sometimes overlooked are very large screens; I know some ppl. with 8092 x
> ???? screens, and a decent page should be rendered sensibly even in those.
>


Here is an interesting piece of information from w3counter. The median
claim you have seems correct. And about 9% people use 800 by 600 px
resolution. This data is generated on a small subset of websites, however.

Screen Resolutions
1 1024x768 50.90%
2 1280x1024 16.81%
3 800x600 8.93%
4 1280x800 8.20%
5 1152x864 3.99%
6 1440x900 2.77%
7 1680x1050 1.85%
8 1280x768 1.26%
9 1280x960 1.07%
10 1400x1050 1.00%


Ref: http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?date=2007-05-20

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