Re: What Size Screen Do You Design For?

Daniel Dyer wrote:
On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:08:02 -0000, Hal Vaughan <hal@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

My guess is that 1280x1024 is about what I can count on most users having at
this point, but I do know of one or two people who are using very old
computers. I don't know if they're an exception or not.

I have 1280x1024 too, but I wouldn't count on everybody having it. I wouldn't make a GUI that couldn't fit comfortably on 1024x768 (the actual application window may be a bit smaller to allow for any desktop features like the Windows taskbar). Bear in mind that there are still a lot of laptops around that have native resolutions of 1024x768.

Also bear in mind that the existence of a large screen does
not necessarily imply that the user wants to devote the whole
thing to just one application. I quite often work with multiple
windows simultaneously, maybe copying and pasting between a
browser and a spread*** or something like that. It improves
inter-window navigability if I can arrange to have substantial
portions of both windows visible simultaneously.

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