[IxDA Discuss] browser window size stats/studies ?

[Vassili Bykov]

Adrian Howard wrote:

> It's also dependant on the platform. For example almost no Mac users  
> will have their windows set to their maximum screen resolution since  
> there isn't an "easy" way of doing it.

I am a Mac user and I don't see that as the primary reason. I think the
main reason is the prevalence on the Mac of large displays with wide
aspect  ratio. For most applications, a window of size and proportion
equal to a typical Mac screen is simply unnecessarily wide.

I actually find the "easy" maximizing Firefox provides on clicking the
Zoom button an annoyance (in contrast to Safari which maximizes the
window to match the *content* rather than the screen). If a typical web
page these days is designed for a screen 1024 or 800 pixels wide, when
a browser is resized to twice that--and even a mid-range Mac laptop
will allow you to go to 1440--you either get text with with 200+
characters on a line or a window that's mostly empty all the while
obscuring everything else you had on the screen.

--Vassili