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- honkytonk
hey guys I have a sweet client that insists 640x480 users are plentiful and wants me to design a site @ that resolution; my monitor won't even go that low...
anybody know any statistics that I can show this guy?
Thanks for feeling my pain guys.
- medium0
here is a decent one to help convey:
http://www.w3schools.com/browser…
- jking760
that reeks. just think of it as a "mini" site.
create it on your machine and test it on a shit computer at 640, please the client, or tell him to pay more for designing in such an idiotic resolution..
- unknown0
640x480 4%
- honkytonk0
perfect! thanks.
*nt is the best search engine on the web...*
- seth0
http://www.thecounter.com/stats/…
another global stats resource...
- unknown0
TELL HIM TO SAY HELLO TO 1998 for me while you're at it.
- CyBrainX0
WHILE WE'RE AT IT....
640x480 is just as old as 216 colors. 8 bit monitors are just as dead.
HOWEVER: Dreamweaver will not let you use the eyedropper in the document settings to pick a background color.
People who think they're in the know will specify web safe colors as if they're doing any good in 2003.
Beware of the web dead detritus that still lives.
- kpl0
wait for the next response:
"well 4% of the 605 million people on the internet works out to be about 24 million folks. we can't just leave them out!"
- quamb0
why bring up web safe colours?
they are relevant- if you don't stick with a web safe colour as your background, browsers will render the colour differently- sometimes so much so that your 'skin' colour will be yellow on one machine, whilst grey on the other.
- corin0
i know ten people off the top of my head who look at the internet on 640*480 resolution, they have no intention of upgrading either.
- ribit0
they probably have no intention of buying the companies products either...
It's important to look at the specific stats of the customers site, not just the world average...
In our case, an online magazine for the automotive design industry, the 640x480 users are more like 2% and fading fast... and we don't want to comprimise things for the much bigger group of 1280x1024-1600x1200 users
- lnu0
ehm, speaking of web safe colours...
If you use a web safe colour in an *.swf and the same color in a *gif, aren't they suppose to match when your screen is set to 256 colors. Isn't that the point?
- knots0
"TELL HIM TO SAY HELLO TO 1998 for me while you're at it."
LMAO delta9...you're a funny guy.
- Nairn0
I hasten to say this - but what if your client know his userbase will likely use 640*480? I mean, are they adamant with good reason?
Don't write it off just because it doesn't apply to you - though, if they're just being idiotic, give them an earful..!
- CyBrainX0
That's the whole point. Less than 3% of people have their monitor set to 8 bit color. That means they are shit out of luck.
- Finnegan0
Why not make a site that is liquid and fits in 640 x 480, yet have the content stretch if viewed at a bigger res.?
- Nairn0
640*480 is just that little too small to suit liquid design with higher specs in mind..