teammatt3 — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:32:20 +0000

1. 1680 x 1050
2. Nope

At school the labs have 17-19 inch monitors (can't remember the resolutions) but I haven't seen anyone who didn't maximize the browser. My parents have a 20 inch monitor and they maximize the browser. I think I might be the outlier with this issue. I just hate having to read across the entire screen. And a lot of the time, I'm comparing the results of my code in FF, to IE, and have the browsers side by side. Now that I think of it, another reason why I keep my monitor unmaximized (is that a word?) is I can drag it from one monitor to another (I have 3 22" monitors). When the browser is maximized, you have to unmaximize it, and then move it over.

greg — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:15:15 +0000

1. 1369x768
2. Always
3. Prefer full width (but used to smaller with my screen being bigger than average)

The two images (below) are what I see. Imagehost is fixed and TWF is (seemingly) not fixed.

My site has dimensions of
top: 35px;
left: 19px;
width: 970px;

Obviously the 970px is the actual content, the green BG is just auto fill so will be different sizes on different resolutions.

(Click images for full size)

Abhishek Reddy — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:00:44 +0000

1. 1680x1050. On a widescreen, 22" monitor.
2. Yes. But only because it's inconvenient to resize the window for a few reasons. With a maximised window I always know where the title bar and its buttons are. And it's hard to adjust the window width and keep full height. And that wastes the "restored" state which I would normally use for making small windows in both dimensions.
3. I like ~70em line width, and near the middle. I really don't like text stretching end to end.

What would be ideal is a browser plugin that allowed me to manually shrink the dimensions of the HTML canvas arbitrarily.

JeevesBond — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 08:44:11 +0000

1. 1440x900
2. Yes, but not all the time. Depends what I'm up to (and I often have the Opera sidebar thingamy open).
3. I prefer them to be fixed width. The best design IMO scales according to text size.