My new laptop has a 17" widescreen monitor in it and i was wondering if anyone else who was using a widescreen monitor had noticed the difference when it came to surfing sites online?

It would appear that widescreen is starting to become a standard format in new PC/Laptop monitors so im wondering if it is time to start scrapping the smaller width site designs and only cater to those surfers who are going to have newer machines with these newer widescreen monitors?

I checked through my server stats and although i see about 20% of users still running on basic 800 or 1200 wide resolutions, is it wise to continue catering to them, especially if the majority of surfers are on wider resolution monitors?

Your thoughts, are we going to see a new 'standard' page width forced upon us with this new 'standard' in PC monitors?

Regards,

Lee