Web Page Default resolutions...

[P3D Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 7:49:31 -0500
>From: P3D  Shelley, Dan  writes:

>>The current standard for *graphics 
>>presentation* is a resolution of
>>equal-to or larger than 800 x 600 
>>and 65,000 colors minimum.
>
>I know that this is super marginally related to 3D, but... To set the 
>record straight, I design and build Web pages for a local company, and 
>am always reading up on the latest "whatever" because of that. One 
>constant I see is that as many as 80% of the world's web browsing 
>computers are still running at only 640 x 480 resolution. The few sites 
>I have seen that are specifically designed for nothing less that 800 x 
>600 (like the 3D-WEB for example...) do themselves a disservice IMO. 
>How can you expect to present what you want to present, when from the 
>start you ignore the lowest common denominator of your viewing 
>audience? A well designed page that fits a 640 x 480 monitor "should" 
>look OK at any other resolution, the same can not be said for something 
>designed to be larger than that to start... Just another 2 cents worth! 
>=)
>
>Dan Shelley
>http://www.dddesign.com/3dbydan

******   I appreciate your comments on this. 

The major point is that HTML allows designing to suit all of those
resolutions. I consider stereo images to fall into the *special graphics*
category which is decidedly different from trying to market *Wattzit Gizmos*
to everyone within reach. You can have high resolution and have your screen
at 640 x 480, but that resolution was considered passe by the industry
itself quite a long time ago (years). It's not really a cost factor because
you can get better than that relatively cheaply. Another group was
discussing this issue and someone reported that a huge percent of the ones
still using 640 x 480 had the capability of better already on their machines
but weren't aware of that fact. I can't imagine anyone using better screen
resolution and then going back to the *old* standard just because it's still
used. It's an education factor and the poor performance of the retail
environment is mostly to blame for the continued focus on such a
ridiculously low screen resolution. It is definitely changing. Can you
imagine buying a car and not trying the air conditioner even when it's hot?
That's like many of these folk still at 640 x 480!!!!

For marketing and business graphics you have to pay attention to the very
very low end, but I like to encourage at least an awareness of better
things, of which stereo imagery is one of my favorite examples. The ideal is
to prepare for either case and encourage the advancement to something better. 

Larry Berlin

Email: lberlin@xxxxxxxxx
http://www.sonic.net/~lberlin/
http://3dzine.simplenet.com/


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