Proposed goal for website: happily usable at 800x600?

[Ben Klein]

2009/2/13 Francois Gouget <fgouget at free.fr>:
> On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Dan Kegel wrote:
>
>> What with netbooks with small screens abounding, it
>> might make sense to review our web site and make sure
>> its most important parts are usable in an 800x600 screen
>> (easy to simulate, just resize your browser until xwininfo
>> says it's 800x550, those gnome top and bottom bars
>> chew 25 pixels each).
>
> For what it's worth, most netbooks have a 1024x600 resolution (all the
> 9" and 10" ones as far as I know, with the exception of the HP one which
> has a highjer resolution). The old 7" models might have had an 800x600
> resolution but I think these can be ignored now (no 7" netbook is
> shipping anymore).
>
I think it's still valuable as an accessibility thing. Remember, not
everyone has excellent eyesight!