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screen res
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 8:50 am
by Charles256
today while testing a site out to make sure it looked respectable in all screen res (go percentages) i changed my screen res to 800 x 600..i wonder how those people make it..i then chagned it to 1280 by 1024..and holy hell!!! tooooo much room...thought i'd never find anything..soo much space..either way.what screen res do you run in? i normally roll with 1024 x 768.
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 8:53 am
by feyd
1280x800 right now.. but on a normal display 1600x1200 minimum. Lower resolutions drive me nuts (can see the pixels too well).
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 9:02 am
by Charles256
the hell? why do you want to see individual pixels?
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 9:05 am
by feyd
psst.. reread the sentence

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 9:09 am
by Charles256
hmmm... ::rubs at his chin thoughtfully..:: touche...

either way, I see no pixesl..well..some..maybe..could be my eyes imagining things now..dots everywhere!!!
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 9:44 am
by Charles256
and it just me or does I.E. handle the percentage game better? :: mad that IE and firefox do not display CSS the same.... :: oh well..most of my users will be beginning users and will only be using I.E. more than likely..if they're using something else..well.i'm screwed..
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 9:49 am
by mickd
my defult i use 1280x1024, i know its not standard but im used to it

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 11:23 am
by Deemo
1280x1024 for me as well
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 12:33 pm
by anjanesh
1024 x 768 - but thats my max possible screen resolution - getting a new TFT soon - hopefully will get 1600 x 1200 ro so.
Re: screen res
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 12:54 pm
by Roja
Charles256 wrote:today while testing a site out to make sure it looked respectable in all screen res (go percentages) i changed my screen res to 800 x 600..i wonder how those people make it..
Thankfully, I think we've passed the point where 800x600 is the majority, but its not quite such a small minority we can ignore them yet. Maybe in another year.
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp puts it as high as 25% of users, which is definitely not a minority you can ignore safely.
Charles256 wrote:i then chagned it to 1280 by 1024..and holy hell!!! tooooo much room...thought i'd never find anything..soo much space..either way.what screen res do you run in? i normally roll with 1024 x 768.
I run at 1280x1024. I use a 21" CRT monitor, and I often change my resolution and font size to help improve visibility on various sites. I have visual deficiencies, and often use assistive viewing technologies. I won't go above 1280 until I get a bigger monitor. I have a second, but thats running my linux box.
And yes, I want a bigger monitor.

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 4:39 pm
by foobar
1280x1024 because it's a TFT flatscreen and low resolutions look like <span style='color:blue' title='I'm naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span>.
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 7:59 pm
by mickd
i dual 2 19" monitors, 1 lcd and 1 crt. both using 1280x1024, havent really tried any others.
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 8:16 pm
by Jenk
On my old CRT I used 1600x1200 but have since got a new TFT which does 1280x1024 (1280x960 when in true 4:3)
I couldn't justify the extra £100 for a 20" that has 1600x1200 native

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 8:20 pm
by Skara
I go with the biggest I can get. My laptop and server are max 1024x768. I hardly use the server monitor, though.

My comp I use most of the time is max 1280x1024. All are LCDs.
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 1:51 am
by blacksnday
feyd wrote:1280x800 right now.. but on a normal display 1600x1200 minimum. Lower resolutions drive me nuts (can see the pixels too well).
I use 1024x768 WinXp /I.E/FF
Could I get anyone to check out
http://villificnews.info and see what is displays as if running
something other then what I just mentioned?
As a (sadly but nicely).. newbie php dev guy..... i have no way to test my stuff on Mac/Linux based stuff
and same goes for security type stuff... so any help..... even if just resolution display.... helps
me greatly.
btw.... anyone who runs 800x600 should be killed anyways, same goes for WIN98..
Can't please everyone, So I at least try to please 1024x768 I.E./FF since I can test that
myself
