Comments on: The Netbook Resolution Conundrum http://derekhat.com/the-netbook-resolution-conundrum/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:55:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Angela Cockburn http://derekhat.com/the-netbook-resolution-conundrum/comment-page-1/#comment-53274 Angela Cockburn Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:50:57 +0000 http://derekh.com/index.php/2008/12/16/the-netbook-resolution-conundrum/#comment-53274 C.mon, Drew, follow the market. Lots of us use netbooks as a portable extra computer. We want to be able to run the same programs when travelling as we do at our desks. If a program does not run on my netbook, I don't buy it. C.mon, Drew, follow the market. Lots of us use netbooks as a portable extra computer. We want to be able to run the same programs when travelling as we do at our desks. If a program does not run on my netbook, I don’t buy it.

]]> By: Richard http://derekhat.com/the-netbook-resolution-conundrum/comment-page-1/#comment-52006 Richard Sun, 17 May 2009 18:31:07 +0000 http://derekh.com/index.php/2008/12/16/the-netbook-resolution-conundrum/#comment-52006 I've been trying to hold clients down to 1024, but because they are looking at a 1280 resolution - or more - all day long on their flatscreen they tend to forget there are still a good number of people still at 1024, and now with the growing popularity of netbooks (the un-computer) that 1024 resolution limit may stick around for quite sometime. I'll continue to try and keep my clients at 1024 until usage of that resolution drops under 20%. Right now according to W3C it is still around 36% (Jan 09). I’ve been trying to hold clients down to 1024, but because they are looking at a 1280 resolution – or more – all day long on their flatscreen they tend to forget there are still a good number of people still at 1024, and now with the growing popularity of netbooks (the un-computer) that 1024 resolution limit may stick around for quite sometime.

I’ll continue to try and keep my clients at 1024 until usage of that resolution drops under 20%. Right now according to W3C it is still around 36% (Jan 09).

]]> By: Drew http://derekhat.com/the-netbook-resolution-conundrum/comment-page-1/#comment-40639 Drew Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:49:45 +0000 http://derekh.com/index.php/2008/12/16/the-netbook-resolution-conundrum/#comment-40639 Yes. It is fair. In fact as a designer I don't feel any obligation to forego the extra screen real estate that the emergence of 1024 as the defacto minimum resolution has afforded me just because a laptop manufacturer realizes they can increase sales volumes by selling people cheaper and crappier computers. Now if these netbooks become common place the design community will likely retreat to 800, we are after all a community that values accessibility. But for the time being I don't think it makes sense to design for them anymore than I think it would have made sense for governments to build smaller roads when the Geo Metro was introduced. We know how that ended up. Yes. It is fair. In fact as a designer I don’t feel any obligation to forego the extra screen real estate that the emergence of 1024 as the defacto minimum resolution has afforded me just because a laptop manufacturer realizes they can increase sales volumes by selling people cheaper and crappier computers.

Now if these netbooks become common place the design community will likely retreat to 800, we are after all a community that values accessibility.

But for the time being I don’t think it makes sense to design for them anymore than I think it would have made sense for governments to build smaller roads when the Geo Metro was introduced. We know how that ended up.

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