Alright, it’s no longer 1998!

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!