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Probably a more accurate question would be how much real estate the users need. In theory, our software has no limitations on the screen size. In practice the users want as much as possible. No, double that.
Most real users have 6 or 8 large screens in their monitor bank. The usual set up is 1 monitor for Bloomberg, one for e-mail and browser, and the others are filled with our app. The individual forms are not that large, save for some of the order blotters, but the users will have a lot open. A trader may well be following a dozen stocks with an L2 and then you can add in prop-trading and order handling.
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I didn't mention BACON this week, sorry.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
modified 12-Dec-11 10:58am.
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We've got users running XP and (worse) IE6 on eye-strain inducing CRT monitors runing at 640x480.
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Well - Western Perspective or not, whatever other nonsense you may have heard . . .
. . . size matters . . .
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Me too - and all my users are in the US of A.
It’s not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it’s because we do not dare that things are difficult. ~Seneca
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Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Quote: That is such a Western Perspective
Rubbish. It's a statistical perspective
1. Browser display statistics[^]
2. Screen-resolutions.com[^]
I guess a "Western" perspective would be starting the stats at 800 and moving up - but even then that cuts out any web developer who's heard of a mobile device, and all mobile device devs themselves.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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That's a sure way to get lots of sales.
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...to your competition.
/ravi
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