screen resoutions of users

[sportbikecalgary]

Hey there,
Here's a quick survey to see the various screen resolutions of the end users of the mag. You can vote for different resolutions if you view the CC pages on different monitors.

1024 x 768 & 1200 x 1024 for me :)

[John]

For those who give a shit?!:confused:

[KZDon]

Considering I may be on an old Dell 17" CRT at my main office (but soon to go to a 22" widescreen flat panel when our IT guy gets to it), a 19" Acer flat panel widescreen at the other office, a 19" CRT at the occasional office, a 21" Dell widescreen flat panel on my wife's desktop, or a 12" regular screen TFT on my laptop...

... who gives a crap as long as I can get online?

[Uwe W.]

My resolution isn't on the selection list? What am I supposed to do? ;)

1280 x 800 and I don't know the other one (27" widescreen), but I know it's bigger than 1600 x 1200

[sportbikecalgary]

My resolution isn't on the selection list? What am I supposed to do? ;)


I'd say round up to the closest first number. 1440 x 900 would turn into 1600 x 1200

Ya.. I wasn't taking into account the potential widescreen thing. so... ok, maybe it was a bit presumptuous to fire up the poll for resolutions. When I was building systems we had to build for the LCD and at that time, it was 800 x 600. You had to pick a number that you would deliver info to the most people for the least effort of having to scroll around.

Now days most flat panels have a standard resolution better than 1200 x 1024. A 22" widescreen would be 1680 x 1050 and a 24" widescreen woud be 1920 x 1200. But do you program for those on the cutting edge with high density screens or for those that may spend their money on other things... such as motorcycles... and have older units in their garage or stuffed into unused corners around the house? I bet most of the CC visitors are still using CRT's and not LCD panels.

Just like the guys that are still on dial up. To have a graphics heavy site drives a certian number of potential clients away. They sure look spiffy when showing them to advertisers. But lots of folks have trouble downloading pages in any sort of timely fashion. Have you considered writing a text-only site for those folks? They could select it in their preferences, and a cookie would remember it. Maybe it's a paid-subscriber choice. You might as well start thinking about it as it'll be stripped down along the same lines as a WAP distributed site for viewing over cell phones and such. You guys have thought about cell phone distribution, eh?

oh well... Sunday night boring babbling from Calgary.
Time for a beer... gonna watch that Shanghai race again :) .

[KZDon]

I have yet to get time to watch my tape of the Shanghai race, and I've purposely been avoiding Uwe's MotoGP poll post so the ending will be a surprise, so, goshdarnit, quit talking about the race in other threads!

I am so hoping to see Dani taken out by a fat man streaking on the track.

[Ivor biggin]

Six riders dicing for the lead on the last few laps! Oh, sorry, that was last weeks World superbike race.:D
IB.

[KZDon]

Gee thanks - I finally watched the Shanghai MotoGP last night (there's another word for second place, Dani; Losing!) but I haven't had a chance to watch WSB yet.

[RB1]

I cannot take part in this thread. I made a resolution at New Years not to scream any more.
Scream resolution. Nope. Not gonna do it.

[Uwe W.]

Hey Neil, I've got a few absolute numbers that you'll find of interest: 40% of the users visiting this site are using a 1024x768 resolution. The next 3 in order of popularity are: 1280x1024, 1280x800 and 1440x900.

Only 7% are at the 800x600 level.

Oh, and dial-up users? 4%.

[TimP]

Oh, and dial-up users? 4%.

Sorry to disagree with you, Uwe, but there's a lot more than 4% of users on dial-up. I have it on authority that fully 52.4% of all forum participants are on dial-up. The majority signed on the very first day the site was up, and the only reason they're not more prominent on the site is they're still trying to log their first posts...

Needless to say, I will not be logging on regularly from the cottage. Not only is it dial-up, it's also pulse. Barney Rubble lives next door. He used to have a "Ninja 1000", whatever that is.

[Uwe W.]

He used to have a "Ninja 1000", whatever that is.

OK, that's just plain weird. Yours was the second reference I heard today to the Ninja 1000. I'll remind you, as I did the other person, that the first Ninja was a 900, and predated the 1000 by, um, I think 2 years. Tom Cruise's Top Gun Ninja was also a 900... I think.

http://vstarrider.com/images/OrlandaBikeMuseum2006073.jpg

[TimP]

Spiffy!

I can see by the low seat that this would work for Tom, but the stretch to the bars seems oddly extreme. But then, Tom's been reaching his whole career, hasn't he?

What's the bike in the background?

[John]

Looks like an original edition GSXR 750 right above it. The piece of the one to the right... I dunno... An 80's Honda Bal D'Or???

Uwe?

John.

[KZDon]

Screen resolutions?? Dial up speed???!??? This is the worst porn site ever!