[thelist] Is it safe yet? 1024 x 768

Christian Heilmann codepo8 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 14 17:23:05 CDT 2005


On 4/14/05, Rob Smith <rob.smith at thermon.com> wrote:
> My boss just tasked me with finding the statistics on screen resolutions.
> Here's what I found:
> 
> http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
> http://www.utexas.edu/teamweb/reports/screen_resolution/
> http://counter1.bravenet.com/index.php?id=355956&type=screenres&usernum=3830
> 9495
> http://www.channelminds.com/article.php3?id_article=649
> 
> Executive Summary:
> 1024 x 768 ~ 50+%
> 800 x 600 ~ 25%
> 1280 x 1024 ~ 15%
> other ~ 10%
> 
> Is it safe yet to move on up? Or be a good designer get a design together
> flexible enough to handle everything?

Depends :-)

I tend to design for 1024 and still keep things bearable on 800. As to
statistics, they don't mean much, as screen resolution is a different
animal than viewport size, and the stats are only available from
JavaScript enabled browsers. On my site I got
1.	1024 x 768	53.8 %
2.	1280 x 1024	32.5 %
3.	>= 1600 x 1200	6.8 %
4.	800 x 600	6.0 %

and 35% firefox, which is a fact I love :-)


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