I ran across this post about time to move beyond 960 where it talks about most websites today are designed for 800x600 resolution. Does that still make sense? I remember working on a desktop application back in the 2001-2002 timeframe where it took a lot of effort to convince everyone that we should move from 640x480 to 800x600 – this at a time when the average monitor was a 17” CRT. SSC seems to fill the whole screen, but many sites – including SQLSaturday.com – only use a portion of it on my not unusual 20” wide screen LCD.
Not everyone has or wants a 20” monitor, though I’m using a 25” LCD at home now and enjoying it. What about people that want to view a site on a phone, does making it bigger make that a worse experience? Not many sites have the traffic to justify a true mobile version. And is the answer to put more information, more ads, on the page? Or should we bump the font size up and make things a little easier to read?
Or is that looking at it the wrong way, that we’re approaching the day where we won’t run apps full screen because we finally have enough room for side by side windows?
It’s interesting when technology evolves that sometimes it takes us time to adapt. We’ve got this extra capacity, now what can we do with it that is interesting?
