Post your thoughts on phasing out 800x600 and start designing for 1024x768 and up

[RawAlex]

Jim, interestingly, by your logic we could all build for 640x480 because then you won't piss anyone off... or perhpas 320x160 to make the atari and apple II people happy too, right?

I very, very rarely see anyone using 800x600 in real life anymore, as most computers made in the last 3 or 4 years all use larger screen resolutions. We have also gone a long way from 14 inch to 15 inch to 17 inch monitors now being the "bare minimum" that gets sold with a system. A quick check through bestbuy, example, shows that their smallest crt type monitor is 17 inches... all of $130 dollars.

We are pretty much down to the same level that we all stopped paying attention to the 640x480 screens... it might be time.

Alex

[Useless]

Originally Posted by RawAlex

...17 inch monitors now being the "bare minimum" that gets sold with a system. A quick check through bestbuy, example, shows that their smallest crt type monitor is 17 inches... all of $130 dollars.

I can't think of any friends for family who currently own anything larger than a 17 inch monitor. (I should mention that I am very socially limited, so I am using a very small market sampling.) Anyway, I think the number we really need is the actual montior sizes in use. As I said in a previous post - 1024x and above tends to be fairly difficult to read on a 17 inch monitor.

[Loganp8000]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

I can't think of any friends for family who currently own anything larger than a 17 inch monitor. (I should mention that I am very socially limited, so I am using a very small market sampling.) Anyway, I think the number we really need is the actual montior sizes in use. As I said in a previous post - 1024x and above tends to be fairly difficult to read on a 17 inch monitor.

I think it all depends where you are. Here in Hawaii 15 is average 17 is huge. In NYC, everyone has 19 or better! After a year of designing on my 17 inch and going to nyc to show off my sites. My urls didnt look to impressive on a really nice 20 inch! suddenly everything looked TINY, super small. in my stats - 60% are on 1152x864 - 30% are on 1280x1024 and 10% are on 832x624. ALOHA

I terms of what I would do exactly with the extra space, well... larger thumbs and more spacious design is the first thing that comes to mind. Im sure many would litter the space with more ads.
ALOHA