sounds good wrote:
Anyone know the current data regarding what percentage of folks use the
various monitor resolutions?
I don't know whether to design a website with 800 by 600 pixels in mind,
or go for 1024 by 768.
Neither. You should aim to produce a website that can be viewed effectively
in any reasonably sized viewport. By default, this is how HTML is
rendered, so you have to actually put in effort to break a website for any
particular resolution.
In particular, stay away from any statistics that claim to tell you what
resolution people are running - web statistics are inherently unreliable,
that goes double for anything that requires Javascript to determine, and
you aren't actually interested in the resolution at all, but rather the
viewport size (not everybody uses a maximised browser window and you have
to remember that lots of browsers have sidebars, etc).
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In any case, this has nothing to do with PHP, so please note followups.
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Jim Dabell