Questions for people with really big screen resolutions
Do you have a screen resolution higher than 1280px wide? If so, I'd appreciate it if you could answer a few questions:
1. Whats is your screen resolution?
2. Do you maximize your browser window?
3. If yes, do you prefer sites to take up the full width of your screen or do you prefer them to be fixed width?
This, of course, relates to the problem of whether to design fixed width or flexible, consiering that designs can get very stretched out on larger monitors. However, if people who have bigger resolutions prefer it that way then maybe that's what we should be doing!
JeevesBond posted this at 08:44 — 20th October 2007.
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1. 1440x900
2. Yes, but not all the time. Depends what I'm up to (and I often have the Opera sidebar thingamy open).
3. I prefer them to be fixed width. The best design IMO scales according to text size.
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Abhishek Reddy posted this at 16:00 — 20th October 2007.
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1. 1680x1050. On a widescreen, 22" monitor.
2. Yes. But only because it's inconvenient to resize the window for a few reasons. With a maximised window I always know where the title bar and its buttons are. And it's hard to adjust the window width and keep full height. And that wastes the "restored" state which I would normally use for making small windows in both dimensions.
3. I like ~70em line width, and near the middle. I really don't like text stretching end to end.
What would be ideal is a browser plugin that allowed me to manually shrink the dimensions of the HTML canvas arbitrarily.
greg posted this at 16:15 — 20th October 2007.
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1. 1369x768
2. Always
3. Prefer full width (but used to smaller with my screen being bigger than average)
The two images (below) are what I see. Imagehost is fixed and TWF is (seemingly) not fixed.
My site has dimensions of
top: 35px;
left: 19px;
width: 970px;
Obviously the 970px is the actual content, the green BG is just auto fill so will be different sizes on different resolutions.
(Click images for full size)
teammatt3 posted this at 16:32 — 20th October 2007.
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1. 1680 x 1050
2. Nope
At school the labs have 17-19 inch monitors (can't remember the resolutions) but I haven't seen anyone who didn't maximize the browser. My parents have a 20 inch monitor and they maximize the browser. I think I might be the outlier with this issue. I just hate having to read across the entire screen. And a lot of the time, I'm comparing the results of my code in FF, to IE, and have the browsers side by side. Now that I think of it, another reason why I keep my monitor unmaximized (is that a word?) is I can drag it from one monitor to another (I have 3 22" monitors). When the browser is maximized, you have to unmaximize it, and then move it over.
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