skeymedia.com— Yahoo releases a beta preview of their new site, and excludes 800x600 viewing without horizontal scroll bars. Could this set the standard?
May 16, 2006View in Crawl 4
umm, if you go to www.yahoo.com/preview and in the right corner, under the yellow search button, there is "Page Options" click that and set it to "Narrow". there you go.
2006 Higher 1024x768 800x600 640x480 Unknown January 17% 57% 20% 0% 6% w3schools. Unfortunately for the 800x600 guys, it no longer makes sense to develop for you. yahoo is playing the smart numbers game.
According to your little unorganized chart, 800x600 is at 20%. That's one fifith of your users. So, one in 5 people who go to your site may not see anything running down the right side of your screen. Hope you didn't put anything important there.
1024x768 seems to work now for the older folks. It was like pulling teeth to switch my mother to this res, but it worked. Now if I could just get her switched to at least 1280x1024, nah, I'm sure she'd freak out.
@bluemech: "I'm using 1600x1200 but I cannot stand anything under 1280x1024. Well, I can live with 1024x768, but it's a stretch. 800x600 and below are terrible resolutions and I've gone out of my way ni the past to make websites hard to view for those people. 800x600 is outdated, time to up the resolution kids."You, sir, are an assh**e.You're telling me that even tough your designs unintentionally adjust to whatever resolution, you go out of your way just to hurt people because they are not as fortunate as you?Let me guess, you are 20-something white American on a Mac, ain't i rite?
Strange nobody commented:TABLET PC PORTRAIT MODE = 768h x 1024v, or 768h x 1280vPortrait mode is the new black. All your designs are too wide.// And let's not forget the new crop of ultra portables.
New York Times has also abandoned 800 x 600. Since April, nytimes.com front page has been a new design. It is now about 1000 pixels wide. Also AListApart.com has a 1000 pixel wide fixed width front page.However, the website I develop for still gets 10-20% of its visits from people using 800x600, so I can't make the change myself, but I sure wish I could!
shadowgateMay 17, 2006
umm, if you go to www.yahoo.com/preview and in the right corner, under the yellow search button, there is "Page Options" click that and set it to "Narrow". there you go.
caughtthinkingMay 17, 2006
2006 Higher 1024x768 800x600 640x480 Unknown January 17% 57% 20% 0% 6% w3schools. Unfortunately for the 800x600 guys, it no longer makes sense to develop for you. yahoo is playing the smart numbers game.
turnlikeawheelMay 17, 2006
According to your little unorganized chart, 800x600 is at 20%. That's one fifith of your users. So, one in 5 people who go to your site may not see anything running down the right side of your screen. Hope you didn't put anything important there.
Closed AccountMay 17, 2006
1024x768 seems to work now for the older folks. It was like pulling teeth to switch my mother to this res, but it worked. Now if I could just get her switched to at least 1280x1024, nah, I'm sure she'd freak out.
requiem18thMay 17, 2006
@bluemech: "I'm using 1600x1200 but I cannot stand anything under 1280x1024. Well, I can live with 1024x768, but it's a stretch. 800x600 and below are terrible resolutions and I've gone out of my way ni the past to make websites hard to view for those people. 800x600 is outdated, time to up the resolution kids."You, sir, are an assh**e.You're telling me that even tough your designs unintentionally adjust to whatever resolution, you go out of your way just to hurt people because they are not as fortunate as you?Let me guess, you are 20-something white American on a Mac, ain't i rite?
h4ppydotcomMay 18, 2006
Does that mean you'd happily alienate 'just' 15% of your visitors by designing a site that doesn't look good on their screens?
skeuomorphMay 20, 2006
Strange nobody commented:TABLET PC PORTRAIT MODE = 768h x 1024v, or 768h x 1280vPortrait mode is the new black. All your designs are too wide.// And let's not forget the new crop of ultra portables.
arancarlisleMay 22, 2006
New York Times has also abandoned 800 x 600. Since April, nytimes.com front page has been a new design. It is now about 1000 pixels wide. Also AListApart.com has a 1000 pixel wide fixed width front page.However, the website I develop for still gets 10-20% of its visits from people using 800x600, so I can't make the change myself, but I sure wish I could!
pissedoffsolApr 13, 2007Submitter
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