Within the
Application Development Framework we have standardized on a screen
resolution of 1024 x 768 for our normal applications. One of the major
reasons for doing this is that it doesn't make sense to develop software
for yesterday's standard screen sizes.
Using this higher
resolution we can fit 60% more information on each application screen
than if we used 800 x 600 resolution. (You still CAN design screens to
this standard if you need to, but I would suggest that these will need
to be revised within the next 18 months)
It is impractical
to attempt to support a multitude of screen resolutions for a large
number of application screens, though this may be practical if you were
designing a general access interface to a limited set of Web based
functions like ordering, account enquiry and such.
Whilst it is
obviously possible to display screens designed for a higher resolution
than that used by the client, the presence of scroll bars gives a less
than optimal user experience, and in this case the effort required to
support multiple resolutions would only be practical for a relatively
small & well defined set of functions.