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    <p><strong><a href="http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Google Labs Browser Size</a></strong></p> <hr> <p>I've always preferred fixed-width layouts over fluid-width layouts, one of the main reasons is that I'm able to better understand how the whole picture will be without having to worry about the screen resolution.</p> <p>But now the "picture" has changed, <strong>there is a high discrepancy between the lowest and highest resolutions used by most users nowadays</strong> and they seem to be here to stay.</p> <p>I've a netbook that only supports 800 pixels or <strong>1024 pixels</strong> wide; I also have a 22" monitor that supports <strong>1650 pixels</strong> and, 24" monitors that support <strong>1920 pixels</strong> and more are becoming pretty common.</p> <p>I've pretty much "ignored" the 800 pixels users for some time and I've been developing with fixed 950/960 pixels wide, I also notice that popular sites (<a href="http://www.stackoverflow.com/">SO</a> for one) either use this approach or the fluid one.</p> <p>For text (almost) only websites (like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Wikipedia</a>) I don't see a problem using the fluid system but what about all the other <strong>websites that depend on images / video to create interesting content</strong>? Social Networks, Classifieds, and so on... What is (will be) their approach to address this issue?</p> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seam_carving" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Seam Carving</a> seems like a good option for the near future but it hasn't matured enough (neither browsers nor jQuery nativelly support it at this point in time), I also feel like users wouldn't understand it, get confused with it and as a consequence abandon the website.</p> <p>The <em>de facto</em> standard on the web is still 1024 pixels wide, and leaving <strong>980 pixels unused</strong> in a 24" monitor just seems plain odd not to say wrong. <strong>So what are our options?</strong></p> <p><a href="http://i45.tinypic.com/1692oat.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">screen resolutions with fixed layout http://i45.tinypic.com/1692oat.jpg</a></p> <p>I would love to hear what you think about this and your experiences with both fluid and fixed systems.</p> <p><strong>PS: Popular websites using either one of these systems are also welcome, I'm specially interested in seeing non-text websites that use the fluid system.</strong></p> <hr> <p><strong>EDIT: I just saw <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1306844/css-fluid-layout/1306903#1306903">this answer</a> and I got kinda confused about the difference between fluid and liquid layouts, aren't they supposed to be exactly the same?</strong></p>
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    1. CODon't forget mobile users. Screen resolution can be there something like 320 x 240.
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    2. CO@Juha: Yeah, but mobile browsers normally resize the content to fit on the screen no matter what, at least that is my experience.
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    3. COSee also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1413602/are-fluid-websites-worth-making-anymore for more on this endless argument.
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