1024 is leaving the station.

I have noticed that many websites I follow are finally slowly expanding past the 1024 monitor resolution. I am sure it is annoying to those that are still on a 1024px screen but it is nice to see. I plan on keeping my sites at 1024px awhile yet.

Where do you think it will end? I feel once you get too wide, web browsing isn't comfortable but photo editing is. I think screens are close to maxing out in size and web browsing up to 1300px max I feel is comfortable for most site designs. Some side scrolling sites are cool and probably work well on larger monitors.

On my huge monitor, I typically browse at 1200px wide, that seems pretty natural to me. Any more and I start to have trouble reading across long lines of text.

Dave

my resolution on my 27" iMac is 2560 x 1440. Absolutely love it too, RAZOR sharp. I hate viewing much smaller.

Wow, that's huge. So you always browse the web at that resolution? What do you do if you want to do two things at once? A second monitor?

It's simple on the iMac. I enjoy it 10x better than a pc, minus the ability to change graphics etc, but then again, I don't play many games anymore because I'm consumed by work x 2 haha. 2nd monitor you can get one with the bolt technology or whatever it is. I quite frequently use my 37" tv for movies hooked up to it. Works great!

It's not a question of being able to do it or not on a PC, I just can't imagine reading a line of text all the way across a 2560px page, and then using another similar sized second monitor for the second application. My neck hurts just imagining it!

Dave

tracknut wrote in post #14155739
On my huge monitor, I typically browse at 1200px wide, that seems pretty natural to me. Any more and I start to have trouble reading across long lines of text.

Dave

I browse even closer to 1024 =/ I am not a fan of the wider pages. I feel like there is so much wasted space. I love it for viewing and editing pictures, I'll take a higher pixel density if I could in a 27" monitor.

But that's only half my work. Everything else is heavily text based. a widescreen is useful only in the sense I can see at least two documents at once.

I run at 2560x1600 resolution, but I certainly don't maximize the web browser. I'm also about 1200 pixels wide on the browser.

I have a 1920x1200 Dell monitor and run it at full resolution.
Most sites appear very narrow in the center of my screen, and I wish that there was some type of 16x9 standard for websites.

I'm not saying that websites should broadcast exclusively at 1920x1080, but an option to go to said resolution would be nice. (Like "click here for 1920x1080")

It kinda makes sense in this way: Its pretty much settled that home TV's are 1920x1080 and will probably remain this way for at least another 5 years. As more and more televisions are coming factory equipped with wireless and internet connectivity, it would make sense that a website would want to have a 1920x1080 option perfectly suited to match this TV "standard."

Yes, it is kinda unpleasant to see lines of script continue from one side of the screen to the other, but that is just the way web browsers contend with script on a large monitor when the site isn't very wide (pixel-wise). On a proposed 1920x1080 website, programmers wouldn't run scripts from one side of the screen to the other, it would be inefficient use of space. That said, it is a shame to have so much monitor real estate, and virtually no websites that will take advantage of that property.

I have a 2560x1440 Dell U2711 and typically run my browser at 1/2 of the screen so ~1200 px. but I would like the option to see bigger photos, I just dont want to read long long lines of text

The future lies with "Responive" design techniques. This allows for the site to be catered to different platform types, such as large desktops, regular desktops, tablets in landscape, tablets in portrait and finally, all the way down to mobile.

I've been working with this methodology for clients a lot lately, and hope to re-design my own site using this technique. One site to rule them all, type of thing.

I don't think I could do without having a second monitor. Regardless of resolution or size of said monitor/s

I have all my PS tools laid out on the other non workspace monitor, and have it set up to just drag and drop, from my upload folder to PS. I have gotten so used to it I cringe when I travel and have to use a laptop.

But I think I'm getting too much off topic. As HD becomes more prevalent, and monitor technology "finally" goes past 72 ppi (that would be fantastic) resolutions will continue to grow until a wall is hit. Where it won't do much good to go bigger, because our human parts can no longer keep up.

Web will always be a vertical format until books and newspapers start to print their text along the wide orientation of the paper instead of the vertical That means never. I have a 24" screen an I browse in vertical letter sized windows. If I visit a wide screen full screen photo site much of the site is cut off and I immediately leave that site. You have to design for what the majority of usage is not what you think looks cool.