[thelist] Screen Resolution, which to design for?
Pringle, Ron
RPringle at aurora-il.org
Wed Jan 17 10:48:43 CST 2007
Barney wrote:
Yes, that has to be it at the end of the day - a sober judgment on the
target audience(s). And your statement is pretty sobering, Ron.
Must admit that everyone I know has broadband (there are those who have
no home connection but will use the local libraries or any of the
several internet caffes around town).
I get a certain amount of frustration from the seemingly non-sensical
situation of standardisation and progress in universal web technologies
being matched by an ever growing sensitivity for ever-dwindling legacy
systems - it seems like spitting in the face of progress, but in fact
it's essential to remember exactly what the state of affairs is when
you're in danger of being blinded by the light.
<snip>
Regards,
Barney
Barney-
Honestly, I went through a 3-6 month re-learning period when I came here. I threw out everything I thought I knew about web design and development, junked all the pre-concieved notions I had built up over 10 years of private sector web design and print publishing, and started from scratch. It was enlightening and scary. And I'm certainly not on top of it all either. Definitely a sobering experience.
On the other hand, I personally go into convulsions if I lose broadband access for more than 5 minutes! :-)
I am now running into the situation where I find that people who visit our site are either on the low end or the high end. Increasingly, there is a digital divide there. As others have suggested, and probably the point of this thread is, how do you support both ends? And then add handhelds on top of that?
I originally designed our site to expand to the size of the browser, but at 1280 x whatever, its getting ugly and less and less usable. I probably will go with a jello style layout and attempt to serve handhelds with a separate stylesheet. the idea of using Javascript for different style sheets is appealing as well, as long as I could still support screen readers with little or no JS support.
Ron
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