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Re: 1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide

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Post by SamReidHughes » Wed, Apr 11, 2012, 11:20 PM UTC

julianpid wrote: post #100

I felt like sharing this info here because it matters to me more than pixel density or aspect ratio. It turns out that GPUs like the popular Intel integrated gfx chips requires each lines of your framebuffer to be 64 bytes aligned. And yet, when using a 1366 wide resolution in 32bit per pixel mode, the visible length in bytes of a framebuffer is 5464, which is not a multiple of 64. The operating system circumvent the…

> But you know these people who can't stand having the volume bar set to an odd number on their television set ?

Um, no?

Re: 1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide

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Post by kristopher » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 12:05 AM UTC

thangalin wrote: post #67

slewis wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its true you should consider who your users are. But these numbers shouldn't be used to determine what size to make a website. I'd guess most people with 1920x1080 monitors don't maximize their browser.

For general websites, I preview the site using: http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/ Many web sites are not designed for people who retain older technology for financial (or other) reasons. Every web developer should befriend someone over the age of 60 and watch their surfing habits.

Unfortunately ever since X-Frame-Options became popular, this tool has been rather ineffective.

Re: 1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide

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Post by bo1024 » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 12:32 AM UTC

protomyth wrote: post #45

bo1024 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't care so much about pixel density; it's the ratio that bothers me. 16:9 is ridiculous for anything except watching HD television. (It also now works well for gaming, but only because developers decided to cater to widescreen.) 16:10 is the widest that makes sense for any day-to-day computing tasks, yet it's getting harder and harder to find; forget reasonable 4:3 types.

you probably won't like some of the suggestions for 4K, one was 4096 x 2048 (2:1).

Nope :). Because I really want around 18 inches of vertical height, and how will I fit a 3-foot-wide screen on my desk??

(Edit: Others have discussed the viewing angle issues with rotating a screen, but it is an option.)

Re: 1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide

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Post by X-Istence » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 12:48 AM UTC

thangalin wrote: post #67

slewis wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its true you should consider who your users are. But these numbers shouldn't be used to determine what size to make a website. I'd guess most people with 1920x1080 monitors don't maximize their browser.

For general websites, I preview the site using: http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/ Many web sites are not designed for people who retain older technology for financial (or other) reasons. Every web developer should befriend someone over the age of 60 and watch their surfing habits.

One thing to note is that if you have a site that dynamically re-sizes according to the browser window (by for example using percentages in CSS), then you will physically have to drag your browser bigger and smaller to see how much a user with a smaller display size would see.

Re: 1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide

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Post by zem » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 12:52 AM UTC

i miss 1400x900 :( it was a lot nicer to use in a laptop than 1366x768

Re: 1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide

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Post by jamesbritt » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 1:22 AM UTC

justincormack wrote: post #95

jamesbritt wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Note how these are not getting wider; they're only getting shorter. A friend of mine said the term around his house for these HD displays is "short screens."

TV engineers used to call wide screen "fewer lines".

I suppose if they reduce the height even more they can call it "ultra-wide".

Re: 1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide

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Post by kristianp » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 1:41 AM UTC

From the stats page CSV:

  19.28% 1366x768
  18.6%  1024x768
  12.95% 1280x800
  7.49%  Other
  7.48%  1280x1024 
  6.6%   1440x900
  5.09%  1920x1080
  3.83%  1600x900
  3.63%  1680x1050
  + others from the csv file below 3%

That resolution is going to dominate for a while, until retina -style screens make an influence on the mass market.

I recently moved from 1280x800 to 1440x900 myself.

Re: 1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide

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Post by tomflack » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 2:08 AM UTC

huggyface wrote: post #72

pkamb wrote: post #61

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But consumers did not choose 16:9 over 16:10, because consumers cannot tell the difference. We can thank TV panels for that switch: LENOVO: "Again, we can thank the LCD manufacturers for this change. By cutting everything in the same aspect ratio, they have less waste per large sheet of glass. Since these manufacturers make more selling TV displays than laptop displays, the PC vendors have almost zero say in this cha…

This has nothing to do with 16:9 or 16:10. This is 16:9 over 4:3. In the case of the iPad, it's completely true. Apple decided that 4:3 screens were the best form factor for a hand-held tablet. I have both an Android tablet (A500 with ICS) and an iPad 3rd generation. I -- without doubt -- prefer the form factor of the A500, not just because it presents a much better experience when viewing videos. It's simply a bette…

For reference (everything else has been covered by the other poster replying to you) I was talking about the 16:10-16:9 move forced on consumers. 4:3-16:9 didn't happen directly, there was a brief stop off at 16:10.

Re: 1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide

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Post by rhizome » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 2:20 AM UTC

jamesbritt wrote: post #86

rhizome wrote: post #53

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For what it's worth, just last night I was dicking around on Newegg looking at laptops and found that a Panasonic Toughbook appears to support 1900x1200 at 15", which is ~1.5 aspect ratio (4:3 = 1.333; 16:9 = ~1.8). The relevant term you want to search for is "WUXGA".

WUXGA is 1920x1200

Noted!

Re: 1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide

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Post by creamyhorror » Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 2:36 AM UTC

slewis wrote: post #59

lini wrote: post #8

It all depends on the target market - for example if you are making a site for gamers, you should look at the Steam HW survey, where 1920x1080 is used by 25% of people. 1366x768 is a distant second with 15%. Source: http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

Its true you should consider who your users are. But these numbers shouldn't be used to determine what size to make a website. I'd guess most people with 1920x1080 monitors don't maximize their browser.

Really? I always maximise my browser and usually dislike not having windows full-size on my screen. It just gets fiddly otherwise. Also I like leaning back as I surf, and I need a big browser window and 120-150% page scaling for that.

Using someone else's computer with a browser that isn't fully maximised irritates me, but I generally only see that on Macs. I don't think it's very common on Windows.