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Within the Application Development Framework we have standardized on a screen resolution of 1024 x 768 for our normal applications. One of the major reasons for doing this is that it doesn't make sense to develop software for yesterday's standard screen sizes.

Using this higher resolution we can fit 60% more information on each application screen than if we used 800 x 600 resolution. (You still CAN design screens to this standard if you need to, but I would suggest that these will need to be revised within the next 18 months)

It is impractical to attempt to support a multitude of screen resolutions for a large number of application screens, though this may be practical if you were designing a general access interface to a limited set of Web based functions like ordering, account enquiry and such.

Whilst it is obviously possible to display screens designed for a higher resolution than that used by the client, the presence of scroll bars gives a less than optimal user experience, and in this case the effort required to support multiple resolutions would only be practical for a relatively small & well defined set of functions.