One thing that really ticks me off the web designer conversation where your web design guy insists on designing to an 800×600 screen resolution to ensure that your pages will be accessible by everyone on the web. Today I ran across this nugget (opens in a new window). I’ve always said that this is so 1998 yet I’ve had this conversation as recently as 2007. Well, if you dissect the table you come up with this:
| Width | |
| 1920×1200 | 2.27% |
| 1680×1050 | 8.72% |
| 1440×900 | 18.37% |
| 1366×768 | 20.76% |
| 1280×1024 | —- |
| 1280×800 | —- |
| 1280×768 | 58.09% |
| 1152×864 | 61.04% |
| 1024×768 | 94.94% |
| 800×600 | 100.00% |
| Height | |
| 1920×1200 | 2.27% |
| 1680×1050 | 8.72% |
| 1280×1024 | 21.97% |
| 1440×900 | 31.62% |
| 1152×864 | 34.57% |
| 1280×800 | 56.92% |
| 1366×768 | —- |
| 1280×768 | —- |
| 1024×768 | 94.94% |
| 800×600 | 100.00% |
That’s right. If you design for 1024×768 you reaching nearly 95% of all the web browsers that participated in this survey. Now web designers can partly like it’s 2004!