[v2interactive]

And they neglect the fact that not everybody has wide display or high resolutions. From my google analytics, i still see people using 800x600. Wow.

[tialys]

Anecdotally, the place I work has people with wide screen, 19inch monitors that insist on using them at 800x600. It looks awful, but they're used to it being huge, and they refuse to change.

[tpyo]

I've seen a few people like that before myself. I think that at least some of them know they can increase the resolution, and they try it, but they switch back before their eyes can adjust.

[axod]

If they care about user experience, they'd detect the window size, and adjust the ads / layout accordingly. Hopefully they'd do that, but I'm skeptical.

[falien]

I assume (hope) that any sites doing this are already at a fixed width of at least 1024 (or whatever it is to allow for browser chrome).