RE: FLASH: Designing for Monitor Resolution

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From: "King McCarthy" <

kingoakweb [dot] com

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>  Some clients I've had insist on accommodating the 640 x 480 user (not 480

>  with browser header), while others insist on 800 x 600.  On our last

>  project, we chose to make all critical content fall within 760 x 430 ...


It boggles my mind how popular the "4-to-3" ratio is, as in your 

first two examples above. Have y'all ever taken a ruler to your 

monitor, measured the actual visible area of a fully expanded 

(without losing toolbars etc.) browser window, and done some math? 

Long story short, instead of a 4:3  (1.33:1) ratio, it's very close 

to 4:2 or 2:1 (actually 1.8:1, on average)! See James L. Mohler's 

*Graphics, Animation, and Interactivity with Flash 4*, page 304, for 

a great chart (Browser/Version vs. Suggested Design Resolution) 

backing up my figures here.


So there ya go, another trade secret revealed on this list. :-)


Ken Sherwood


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