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Who cares about Firefox?

Who cares about Firefox?

Have you ever noticed that those people who vehemently argue for writing pages which work in Firefox frequently design pages which are totally unusable if viewed on a 800×600 video screen?

Yet almost the same number of people who use Firefox, 13% of the browser market as of September 2007, (http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2007/September/browser.php) browse the web on a computer with a video screen set to a 800×600 resolution (10% of the browser market: http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2007/September/res.php)

So – Why the lack of (loud) public support from the web design community?

Is it because web designers are loathed to give up their big header graphic images and navigation buttons which take up half the screen even on larger screens ? Is it because shouting for the cause of the 800×600 display can’t drum up the rabid fan-boyism of “stickin-it-to-microsoft” that supporters of the Firefox browser enjoy?

Or is it simply that the young web designer crowd do not have friends which browse the web at 800×600 and therefore do not consider it important (after all if their friends are not doing it why bother to design for it) ?