What are your screen settings High res or low res?

800x600 or 1024x768 - which is more used?

[walker]

Hi

What is the industry standard now days for screen size settings is it low res 800x600 or high res 1024x768.

Kind Regards

Walker

[gingerbreadman]

I would still say that the average is 800 X 600. That is what the vast majority of people that I know are developing for.

I use 1600 X 1200 but is that just me?

[tedster]

Most stats I see show a near even split between 800 and 1024. No other resolution comes anywhere close.

[ShawnR]

"...near even split between 800 and 1024. No other resolution comes anywhere close..."

w3schools browser stats are pretty much in line with that.

I'd find this an interesting topic thread to keep alive, and for people to post the resolutions they see on their sites every now and again. It would be interesting to watch the trends as monitor resolutions increase on the one hand, and PDAs increase in popularity on the other.

Shawn

[trillianjedi]

I read somewhere (reputable source I know but can't remember, sorry) that something over 60% of internet users still browse at 800 x 600 so that is still the bulk of the market, but monitor prices are falling and the clear trend will be to higher resolution.

Which is why I feel (as per the other thread on this) that fluid content has to be the way forward now due to the fact that people are upgrading their monitors....

TJ

[grahamstewart]

BrowserNews [upsdell.com] puts the split at about 46/50 in favour of 1024x768.

monitor prices are falling and the clear trend will be to higher resolution

All modern monitors are easily capable of 1024x768.
The limiting factor tends to be either the graphics cards or the fact that users find 1024x768 'too small' on the crappy 14" fishbowl monitor that they got 'free' with the PC. :)

Totally agree that fluid design is the way forward (as was probably apparent in the other thread).

[trillianjedi]

Sorry, I meant *useable* higher resolution, as in a really decent 15" or a 17" monitor prices of which have plummeted with LCD's now coming out into the mainstream. In fact, a 14" LCD is more than capable of doing decent 1024 x 768.

TJ

[knighty]

If you have a really decent monitor then 1024 is prolly going to be the default rez with most people not tinkering with display properties.

Of course you can never rule out 800 x 600 and I never design over 760px.

I have always used fixed width - it has always been and will continue to be the way forward.

[limbo]

Any body know what percentage of users are using 640 X 480?

I am still designing liquid for this res as the lowest common denominator. Do you think I should give up trying to queeze my pages into this resolution?

Also I had the idea of making an interface that would govern a page layout by referencing different external style sheets depending on the resolution.

This might then remove the need for liquid layout?

[limbo]

"I have always used fixed width - it has always been and will continue to be the way forward"

Have to disagree with you there Knighty

I bet those who deliberated the design of this forum would disagree ;)

I checked this page at 640 x 480 and it looks great.

A fixed width of 720px would bug me if I had to surf using lower resolutions (personally I use 1024 and prefer liquid pages to fixed layout)

[grahamstewart]

Any body know what percentage of users are using 640 X 480?

Its very low these days (less than 3% [upsdell.com]) - but I reckon that this might actually increase as more people start to browse using palmtops, mobile phones and WebTV.

This might then remove the need for liquid layout?

What about non-standard resolutions? Non-maximised browsers? When the 'Explorer' bars are open? Browsers with add-ons?

Don't want to start this argument on a whole other thread tho - refer to [webmasterworld.com...] instead :)

[limbo]

Graham,

Thanks pal. I thought the percentage would be low but not as negligable as 3%.

But while there is still 3 in every 100 I will continue to squeeze my fluid layout into a 680 width.

Where did you find this info?

Ta

Limbo

[grahamstewart]

> Where did you find this info?

It's a link to the source - click it :)

[limbo]

whoops missed that one :)

Ta