who uses 800x600?

[Jaffar21]

I know most people these days use 1024x768 or even higher than that but does anybody here represent 800x600? I remember the good old days when my monitor was set to 8x6.

[nexosis]

i think 800*600 is better... if it's 1024 x 768 I think an html page is crap lol . . .

[KeZZeR]

I know most people these days use 1024x768 or even higher than that but does anybody here represent 800x600? I remember the good old days when my monitor was set to 8x6.

8x6 would most probably be one of those tiny LCD displays.

I remember 320x240 days. Or whatever that resolution was.

I work in 1680x1050 at home and I use a 20" and 19" at work so 1600x1200 and 1280x1024. So 1280x1024 is the smallest display I use. I still know people who work in 1024x768 though ;)

[Aradon]

I think my computer at home might be 800 x 600, but my laptop computer is 1024 x 768

[JamieR]

I also remember the days of 800x600! I had my old PC on 8x6 for about three years, lol.

I'm running two 17" CRTs on here, both set at 1280x1024. My screen res is 2560x1024 overall. I like having a high screen resolution because it gives me more space for everythin - things feel less cluttered.

[Grant Palin]

My 19 inch LCD at home is set at 1280x1024, and it's great for me. My laptop is one of those widescreen models - can't remember the resolution at the moment - so I'm used to higher resolutions. I now have a hard time working at 800x600 on other computers - it just seems more crowded.

[KeZZeR]

I didn't know people still were using 800x600. The lowest resolutions at my work are 1280x1024. For my kind of work you need loads of desktop space, 800x600 would be very restrictive.

Get with the times man! :D

[Aradon]

I'll admit that I'm probably in the minority for resolutions, but the monitor is a little crappy even though the computer isn't.

[Nightfire]

My monitor's not that good, so often have to change between 1024x768 and 800x600. Depends what I'm looking at at the time. If it's a site with lots of text, then I have to go to the lower res, if it's a video or whatever then can boost the res up to 1024

[Jeroentje]

I know most people these days use 1024x768 or even higher than that but does anybody here represent 800x600? I remember the good old days when my monitor was set to 8x6.

how bout 640x480 in windows 95 machines? :thumbsup:

Any TFT has a Native resolution these days, it will look best at (mostly) 1280x1024 ...

[twodayslate]

I do not have that small of a resolution but I still code for it.

[Troy297]

Well if you are a web developer looking to figure out your target audience then use Google Analytics - it gives you tons of great stats on all your visitors: http://www.google.com/analytics/

For me its about 7% of visitors with 800x600 and the highest was 48% with 1024x768

[SSJ]

It was the olden days 800*600.

Nowadays never.......

[ghell]

800*600 wasn't really that long ago. 10 years ago it was 320*240 and before that even smaller. I remember the praise command and conquer: red alert got for being able to use "glorious 640*480" and some older games that are still playable today have resolutions of even lower than 320*240 (I don't actually remember what the resolution of powball was, I suppose it was 160*120)

Those "portable" laptops with 12" screens may only have a maximum resolution of 800*600. Also those using RDP, Citrix, VNC or whatever may use a smaller resolution to gain higher network speeds. People using vmware or ms virtual pc may set the guest OS to a smaller res so that they do not have to go into fullscreen mode, in particular linux guests on vmware tend to have a max resolution of 800*600 to start with (in my case even after vmware tools is on I can't set higher than that, but in theory once it is on and xorg.conf is set up it should be able to run higher). Also I know quite a few old folks who use 800*600 because their eyesight isn't great, and you cant forget about the "languages" departments in schools who seem to always be at least 6 years out of date in everything. Vista still supports 800*600 so it can't be that outdated. :rolleyes:

If you're trying to work out the best size to make a website, you're probably best doing a 100% width rather than a specific size.

I also remember the days of 800x600! I had my old PC on 8x6 for about three years, lol.

I'm running two 17" CRTs on here, both set at 1280x1024. My screen res is 2560x1024 overall. I like having a high screen resolution because it gives me more space for everythin - things feel less cluttered.With 2 17" CRTs on my desk, I would have no (physical) space at all!:p

Personally I can't use dual monitors without getting annoyed by the giant line between them, so I just bought a 19" Samsung SM940MW (http://www.samsung.com/uk/products/monitors/lcd/lcdtvmonitors/ls19dowssedc.asp?page=Specifications) which is widescreen 1440*900 and I can also use as an hd ready tv or 2nd monitor for my laptop etc.

[thesmart1]

I have a laptop with a wide screen (1440 x 900 res) and an old 14" crt (1024 x 768 res). And ghell, where is there a line between the two monitors?

Anyway, occasionally, I'll adjust the res on my second monitor to test my site in 800 x 600, but I don't particularly code for it

[ghell]

If you have the monitors in spanning mode, so that one is the left half of your screen and one is the right half, you get the (what I think is a) problem of having the left edge of 1 monitor and the right edge of the other monitor right in the middle of the screen. For example CRT monitors tend to have around an inch all the way around them. That's 2 inches of gap between the inner edges of the actual screen area. tft displays this is smaller but (for me at least) still a big annoyance. In a lot of applications the center of the screen is the most important part (for example, in an FPS game [assuming that it uses both screens when you have it in spanning mode], it's where the crosshair is. You would have half the crosshair on one screen and half on the other and a large gap between them.)

Also, reading text and having to keep skipping forward 2 inches is a pain.

For some applications of course this is not a problem, and most people who use dual screens at work don't use horizontal spanning mode but stick some applications on one display and some on the other. Those who do use horizontal spanning will probably have it set to lock windows onto one screen or the other.