> By Optimum i mean something that used to go
with majority of web users at that point.
I understand. My point is that screen resolution doesn't correlate directly
with browser viewport size.
Yes there are a lot of other things to consider but it gives you a rough
estimate.
I find it a red herring type of statistic that slowly become sort of a
believable urban legend...that everyone browses the internet on a desktop PC
with a monitor set to 600x800 using Internet Explorer on Windows with a
maximized window and no extra panes or toolbars showing and these three
fonts installed and have 20/20 vistion and...
The above sounds logical. You'd think, yea, I suppose most people would do
that. But once you begin thinking that, you're not thinking in the context
of the web anymore. You're thinking about a fixed, consistent canvas. And
the web simply isn't a fixed, consistant canvas.
So I usually try to knock that line of thinking out of a web developers head
as soon as I can. ;o)
Once a developer understands that, then it becomes much easier to know when
it is OK to make a fixed size interface...typically when developing a web
application targetted at a specific audience...and they become much more
cogniscant of the fact that web design is much more about suggestiong things
than dictating things to the end user. ;o)
-Darrel