Screen Resolution Trends

[Leo Mauler]

This is certainly true of browsing the web, I've found
very few websites which don't demand a maximized
window to view the page properly.

I suspect this is the natural consequence of
ad-supported websites: the ad-supported sites shove
content out of the way to display ads in less than a
maximized window environment; the majority of websites
are ad-supported; so naturally web designers design
their pages to the lowest common denominator, which
demands a maximized window.

--- Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at tarcanfel.org> wrote:
> Something that's been skirted in this discussion is
> the idea that the whole point of a windowing 
> environment is that no one application takes all 
> of the resources - they share the screen, so 
> whatever the screen's maximum resolution is, any 
> given app should take _less_ than that for it's
> standard resolution.
> 
> That's been something that's frustrated me.  We 
> have this ideal of multiple working windows, but
> unless you're on some super-pricey graphics
> workstation you're usually reduced to maximizing
> each application in turn to make the most of your 
> resources.


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