D_Blackwell - 10:11 pm on Nov 4, 2009 (gmt 0)

There is a strong trend towards designs that take up as much horizontal monitor space as possible. Bigger screens are great, but way too much assumption that people are going to continue giving their page 100% of the real estate. True for a lot of users, but less and less true for the average user that now has the ability to have multiple monitors, multiple open applications..... Used to be that the average user pretty much had to give up the whole window. Not anymore.

Seems to be a minority opinion. Designs are getting wider every day, and not accounting for the zoom that many people require to actually read the page..... Discussions that I've had about this have met with a lot of ho-hum response. Designers want to build for big screens, owners like their pretty sites in big screens, and I don't see or hear a lot of concern over what the user wants. Very quiet topic for what the user wants, IMO.