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On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 01:54:24PM -0500, Janet Green wrote:

> I have some questions about screen resolution. Someone told me
> recently that new computers are automatically set at 1024x768, so
> when they designed a site at that resolution and asked me to look at
> it, I commented that I didn't think most people were viewing sites
> at that resolution (including me) and so might find the horizontal
> scroll bar annoying... now after talking to my IT manager, who
> showed me all these Windows settings you can change to alter your
> resolution AND the size of type on your screen... I'm wondering if I
> was wrong to criticize the guy for designing at 1024x. So here are
> my questions:

> 1. Does anyone have a web statistics site they like to visit to find
> out what the most commonly used screen resolution is these days
> for average web surfers, or failing that, do you have an opinion
> about how likely people are to be viewing at 1024x?

/var/log/apache/access.log - only my own stats are relevent to my site.

> 2. How likely are people to change their screen resolution because a
> particular website says it's "best viewed at" (x)?

Umm... as close to zero as you can get without actually hitting it.

> 3. How likely they are to change all their Windows settings to
> customize their computer? (I consider myself an above average
> computer user, but I NEVER mess with the Windows type-size
> settings. Maybe I'm not so above average after all!!)

Depends on the audience, I never change my Windows settings... but I
don't run Windows. When I did I changed them to suit my screen and
vision.

> A little education, please, on "where we're at" with screen
> resolution theory these days. Thanks!


I'm at the "resolution is irrelevent and look at all those PDAs
getting on to the net with tiny displays now
stage".

http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?AnySizeDesign might be useful.


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