In a time of rapid change on the web, it’s about time to increase the standard resolution for web development. 800×600 is dead. Get it a casket and throw flash, frames, table layouts, hideous forms, word generated html, animated gifs, and giant repeating watermark background images in with it and bury them. Forget them. It’s time to move on.
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It’s kinda like when a young boy in rural Iowa grows up and realizes his large collection of Rap music just isn’t cool anymore. He motions to throw it away.
the whole 800×600 thing is never going to end (maybe when the web strays from 72 DPI).
Its like racism (i know its a stretch but its true). racism COULD end tomorrow if starting tomorrow it was NEVER spoke of again. Then the kids will never even have heard of it, and obviously never taught it.
Maybe I’m being a downer, but I don’t see the industry standard changing from 800×600, actually somewhat like 760px wide as the base layout principals… but I saw that and I was happy he put that graph on his site… we should look at ours :) I’m ready to change!
Thanks for the link, Andy. I just wanted to comment on the graph. It is a real-time graph generated from my counter software, SiteMeter, so it is constantly changing based on who visits the site.
But yes, the big reso’ guys took the stats by storm, but as I mentioned in the article, these results are probably swayed from your average user.
Most “normal” (Or is it, non geek?) folks probably won’t visit my blog. A Good chance, probably not this one either. So while I’m showing much less percent running 800×600, My other website I run which serves MANY pages a day is still between 15% and 18% daily for 800×600.
Graph: http://s11.sitemeter.com/rpc/v6/server.asp?a=GetChart&n=9&p1=s11hondaswap&p2=&p3=73&p4=0&p5=63%2E239%2E47%2E21&p6=HTML&p7=1&p8=%2E%3Fa%3Dstatistics&p9=&rnd=88064
As much as I would like to see it happen, I don’t think it’s coming any time soon. While I always try to code in a fluid manner, sometimes you just need some more width :)
I agree with Brian Cummiskey. One of my websites, http://www.gamerosters.com, uses Google Analytics to track all sorts of things. Typically around 25% of my visitors are still 800 x 600.