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Michael · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 10431

Although it's generally not-done I'd like to use a huge image as a background for a website I'm designing, the idea is that you usually only see the center but then if you make the window bigger you see the rest of the image. The problem with this is that (unless you can shop some nice repetitive bit) at some point you'll run out of image. Luckily I have a rather large one I'd like to use, but just in case: what's the highest resolution you've encountered/know of on any screen used for browsing?

mantismag · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 81

if you make it really big it will take a really long time to load. do you really want your background to load long after the rest of your page?

Dogen · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 9297 Location: Bellingham, WA

My 19" runs at 1280x1024, but that's not touching the top-end. You can easily find monitors up to 1920x1200. That's widescreen, though. In a 4:3 format you'd probably be safe with 1600x1200.
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Michael · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 10431

eWoud · Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 12:26 am Post subject:

2560 x 1600 - the current 30" generation. My guess is that visitors will close the site before it's loaded half way.

<- 1400x1050 and it's getting crowded.
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Dro · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 3830

Monitors will be getting bigger and bigger.

use this to take your own background image.

John Mytton · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 607

That's funny-Popular Science said it was a gigapixel.

Either way, it's awesome.

Michael · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 10431

Marik · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 1233

Mine goes up to 2560x1600.

I always have it at 1600x1200 and everyone else who uses it is all like

WEH I CAN'T READ

... But seriously, if I have it at any single smaller resolution, I feel like I have no graphical operating space whatsoever.

Flion · Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 3:06 pm Post subject:

My laptop is at 1920x1200 and it's still not enough real estate for me. *Drools over Marik's screen* I usually end up bumping up the font for people with less than perfect vision (I'm 20/10 both eyes). As for load times, I took a screenshot and loaded it on my webspace and then downloaded it using Firefox. It is a 300k JPEG and took less than a second to download and display. Hey, if you're not on broadband, move over to the slow lane of the internet highway... Razz

IE and Firefox reduce images to fit (unless the HTML specifically prevents it), so the image should fit any resolution but that means you need to choose and format the image carefully to avoid resizing artifacts.
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Drui · Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 541 Location: 'Jersey :}

Mine is at 1024x768, and I'm happy with that.
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mantismag · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 81

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mantismag · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 81

1. not everyone has broadband and remember that's time just for your background image. what about the rest of your site?

2. if you want people who aren't your friends to look at your site it's an issue

3. and people hate them

4. ok if you really don't care then this'll be my last post on the subject. i just figured since i've actually taken classes for this and spend a large portion of my time reading books and articles about it as well as of course actually creating a website or two that i ought to chime in.

Black Kitty · Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 704 Location: Under your bed.

I'm running 1600x1200.
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