OT but valid for most of us;

[chris leeds]

snipped from the very good newsletter from www.sitepoint.com:
Global Browser Stats for January 2004
Courtesy of TheCounter.com, which logs about half a million unique visitors
per hour, the below are the latest compiled stats on JavaScript penetration,
browser popularity and more.

JavaScript 1.2+ is active in 94% of all browsers. Only 4% have no JavaScript
capability.

Java is enabled in 93%+ of browsers.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.1+ has a 74% market share.

Microsoft Internet Explorer follows with 17%.

Mozilla has a 1% penetration rate.

Netscape 5.x and Opera both also have a 1% share.

Thursday and Friday are the most popular surfing days.

A screen resolution of 1024x768 is used on 49% of all computer systems.

The 800x600 resolution is used on 37% of all systems.

A resolution of 1280x1024 is used on 6% of all computer systems.

A resolution of 1152x864 is used by 3% of users.

The 640x480 screen resolution is at 1%.

These numbers should prove pretty handy when you next make design decisions
or write a proposal.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

The resolution info is of little value, as it only indicated the actual
screen resolution, not the user view habits.

Example, my screen resolution is 1280 x 1024 but I never surf full screen,
mostly around 800 x 700 pixels.

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[chris leeds]

I've usually got my browser at 800 too. I think it's a habit from
constantly testing there that they don't look right big. and you can only
see one at a time that way. ;-)

 

[Steve Easton]

I always use 800 x 600 because for me the larger settings make the text too
hard to read.

As an aside to this, I wonder if the shift to 1024x768 is really a user
"preference" or because most newer monitors / systems
default to that size and the users don't know how to change it.
You would be amazed at the number of people that have no clue that you can
change resolutions or how it's done.


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Microsoft MVP FrontPage
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[chris leeds]

it's gotta be a default thing. Most of the people I communicate with
(customers) have no idea what their resolution is or where to find the
settings to check/ modify it.
I think it's the same reason IE6 is at such a high %.
IMHO