RE: the resolution fact

Hmmm. some stat realization is in order here:

Looking at:
http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/user_surveys/survey-1998-04/graphs/technology/q90.
htm I'd hazard an educated guess and say that half or more of the monitors
in the "I don't know" category are set to 640x480.

And by the way.. the manufacturer has nothing to do with setting the screen
res. on a monitor that the OEM or Reseller supplies to a client (the techie
at the computer store usually does this if he is pre-configuring for the
client, or the client themselves when they get it home and install their own
OS).

The Windows 95 default out of the initial install (without user
intervention), is 640x480, and not 800x600.

The majority of clients that I have seen at such locations as a crown
utility in Ontario, have their monitors set to 640x480 (almost 60%) of them
(there are over 6,000 in one location alone).

The majority of clients still running on Pentium 90s and 133s are still
running their monitors at 640x480 256 colour, as they more than likely, also
own an inexpensive SVGA card. Only those that have obtained something with a
little more spunk, and have the inclination to dig around in Display
configuration, have bothered to change their set-up.

So, take half of the 21% who "don't know" (to be safe), and add that to the
16% who do run at 640x480 and you are now approaching real world numbers!

BTW, the survey at GVU polled 7,670 respondents through their browser
interface, while connected to the web. I've been to that many desktops and
more in the last 2 years alone, and I can tell you the stats are more like
60/40 split (640/800 respectively).



Gil Tennant
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From: owner-hwg-critique(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-critique(at)hwg.org]On
Behalf Of killian jenkins
Sent: January 27, 1999 5:15 PM
To: hwg-critique(at)hwg.org
Subject: the resolution fact



Look people,  i am seeing many responses in critiques that address
640x480 viewing problems. First of all, if you are one of the designers
who has heard this, pay no heed to it as a valid critique.  Certainly,
we would love to be able to accomodate all, but the design range and
possibilities are very limited by this resolution and when one considers
that less than 15% of computer owners alive use that resolution, i say
don't worry about it when entertaining a design strategy (in the Czech
Republic that number goes down to under 3%).  Also take into consider
that computer systems have been shipping since 1996 pre-configured at
800x600 which means somebody would have to actually go in and
reconfigure their computer from the factory to a worse resolution...
which 90% of people couldn't do in the first place even if they wanted
to. Furthermore, check out any award winning site and it is simply not
viewable in that resolution.  I often have meetings with clients and it
is quickly agreed upon that we are focusing on 800x600 as the low end
resolutions...

to those that are complaining about it... put it this way, it is far
easier to set your screen resolution up one size than it is to expect
designers (which is a hard damn job anyway) to design to a nearly
defunct resolution.  This is 1999, folks... 640x480 is dead.


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