Your screen resolution of choice

Marty_J

Here's one sampling of screen resolutions:

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_display.asp

There are lots more if you have a search for them. 1024 x 768 and up is the most common. That doesn't mean you should make all your pages 1024 or 1280 pixels wide though. I can't remember the last time I had my browser maximised to fill the whole screen; many people do other things while they're browsing the net these days.

basmic

1680 x 1050

purplevamp

How should I know? I'm a girl











Actually, it's 1440 x 900, but I don't know what that means!!!

-TangleFoot-

weegie.geek wrote: »

You should be developing towards 1280*1024 and 1280*800

If everyone did that, browsing the web would be an intolerable experience for users of smaller screens. The EeePC 701 has a default resolution of only 800x480!

Besides, people with larger screens don't necessarily want their browser to occupy the entire screen. Standard practice at present is to design pages for display in a window no less than 1024 pixels in width.

As long as I can browse the web without scrolling left or right, I'm happy.

weegie.geek

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

If everyone did that, browsing the web would be an intolerable experience for users of smaller screens. The EeePC 701 has a default resolution of only 800x480!

Besides, people with larger screens don't necessarily want their browser to occupy the entire screen. Standard practice at present is to design pages for display in a window no less than 1024 pixels in width.

As long as I can browse the web without scrolling left or right, I'm happy.

netbook users are in the minority, people should develop with the majority in mind.

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_display.asp

Obviously it's silly to make websites larger than they have to be to be functional, but I'd rather something needed to be full screen at 1280*800 than it was cramped. With tabbed browsing, fullscreen browsing's not a problem.

Marty_J

weegie.geek wrote: »

With tabbed browsing, fullscreen browsing's not a problem.

That assumes that people only do one thing at a time when using their computer. I'm chatting on messenger and watching TV on mine as well as browsing. Sometimes I'll be using iTunes, talking on Skype, and checking my emails as well. Websites that want to take over my whole screen are very very annoying.

Curiously though, working with everything maximised seems to be a very Windows way of doing things. I always know when a Windows user has been using my Mac, as they stretch everything out to fill the screen. Seems silly to me, but I guess people use a computer in the manner they're used to, regardless of what platform it is.

[Deleted User]

1280 x 800. 15.4" screen.

[Deleted User]

1920 x 1200 on 24"'s

vaio

1920 x 1200 on 17” laptop and the same at work on a 23” screen

weegie.geek

Marty_J wrote: »

Curiously though, working with everything maximised seems to be a very Windows way of doing things. I always know when a Windows user has been using my Mac, as they stretch everything out to fill the screen. Seems silly to me, but I guess people use a computer in the manner they're used to, regardless of what platform it is.

I've noticed that too. My friend with a mac doesn't maximise windows, whereas I do. Even when using two monitors, I have one thing maximised on each monitor.

Ive done that since Workench days though, so it's not a windows thing in my case at least.