On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
It's important to remember though that the 800x600 screen reaches both the 1024 and the 1280 user though, giving it an overwhelming market share, while the 1024 and larger screens "miss" the lower resolution market.
Oh, I'm certainly not suggesting that pages don't have to display properly on 800x600 screens. I guess that I'm suggesting, due to the wide range of resolutions that most people are using, that static-sized pages should be depricated and authoring dynamically-sized pages should be more of a priority. I had three hits at 3820x1024 resolution. What the heck is that, a wide screen TV?
This is what I've got so far for April, s_wt is screen width, s_ht is height:
mysql> select s_wt,s_ht,count(s_wt) from screenres where date rlike '2005-04' group by s_wt; +------+------+-------------+ | s_wt | s_ht | count(s_wt) | +------+------+-------------+ | 1024 | 768 | 2932 | | 1056 | 792 | 2 | | 1120 | 840 | 10 | | 1152 | 864 | 220 | | 1267 | 993 | 1 | | 1280 | 1024 | 785 | | 1344 | 840 | 6 | | 1400 | 1050 | 79 | | 1440 | 900 | 38 | | 1536 | 960 | 2 | | 1600 | 1200 | 94 | | 1680 | 1050 | 29 | | 1792 | 1344 | 2 | | 1800 | 1440 | 1 | | 1920 | 1200 | 18 | | 2048 | 768 | 9 | | 2304 | 864 | 2 | | 240 | 320 | 2 | | 2560 | 1024 | 2 | | 560 | 420 | 1 | | 640 | 480 | 25 | | 768 | 1024 | 1 | | 800 | 600 | 1213 | | 819 | 614 | 1 | | 832 | 624 | 5 | | 960 | 600 | 2 | | 969 | 768 | 1 | | 998 | 701 | 1 | +------+------+-------------+ 28 rows in set (0.06 sec)
I am also aware that my suggestions traditionally have a null effect on reality. I just thought it was interesting, and I haven't seen this data presented anywhere.
It was a big shift when the "conventional web wisdom" abandoned the 640x480 screen resolution. I don't see that happening to the 800x600, but the range is so wide now that dynamically-sized pages are certainly the way to go in the future, and the present.
But then, I'm still waiting for the browser that renders vector graphics.
Regards,
-Don