Apparently width = 800 *does* matter for web sites.
Posted by Nat Tuck
I recently got a nice big monitor - 25.5", 1920x1200 - and I discovered a neat feature of modern windowing systems that I really hadn’t used that much previously: non-maximized windows. On my monitor, it’s possible to put two windows next to each other and still have a useful amount of text in both.
Any application or web page that I do that with gets an oddly shaped "screen" to work on: 960x1200. That’s not quite the with of a 1024x768 screen, but something targetting 800x600 will fit fine.
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