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Most of the time, people don't have their browsers the full size of their screen. [citation needed] (seriously, I'd love to see some real data on this).
by abstractbill 18y ago
Most of the time, people don't have their browsers the full size of their screen.
[citation needed] (seriously, I'd love to see some real data on this).
- gnaritas 18y agoI'd say he's wrong, as far as I've ever seen pretty much everyone but developers run their browsers, or any other app they're using, full screen.
- diN0bot 18y agoi'm a developer on 13in macbook. i run full width. my husband is not a developer or tech-savy and he runs ff partial width of 17in macbook. (75% i'd guess?) as for the feedback button on the side of pages: it annoys me. whatever. a good product has users that really hate it and really love it.
- rfunduk 18y ago> i run full width. Really!? Can I ask why? Why not just make the browser about 1050px or so wide, you can view every website out there and you can have other things in the extra space (twitter, client, terminal, downloads, whatever).
- abstractbill 18y agoI do this too. My screen is pretty much always taken up either by a full-width Emacs, or a full-width Firefox. I can't speak for diN0bot of course, but the reason I work this way is to minimize distractions. I don't want all that stuff in my peripheral vision when I'm busy trying to get stuff done.
- rfunduk 17y agoAssuming you're using a Mac, opt-cmd-h will hide all windows but the one you're using... Personally, what I find worse than 'distractions' is being blinded by whitespace caused by Firefox (/whatever) being way too huge. And, full-width emacs!? On my monitor (with a rather large font size) that's almost 250 columns, I hope you don't have any code over there! If you're vertically splitting emacs, then, I think we're on the same page. It's not about windows themselves being any specific size, it's about making them an appropriate size for their content.
- jrockway 18y agoProbably because managing windows is a big pain, but everyone still thinks it's 1980 and overlapping windows are really cool.
- rfunduk 17y agoManaging windows is a big pain? Is it 1980? :)
- alex_c 18y agoI would go as far as saying "pretty much everyone but Mac users". Of course, then I would be just as guilty of generalizing without any hard data as the author of the article. ARE there any numbers on this? Edit: Here's a report from 2000: http://www.evolt.org/article/Real_World_Browser_Size_Stats_Part_II/20/2297/index.html http://www.evolt.org/article/Real_World_Browser_Size_Stats_P... And another from 2006: http://www.baekdal.com/reports/Actual-Browser-Sizes/actual-browser-sizes/ http://www.baekdal.com/reports/Actual-Browser-Sizes/actual-b...
- abstractbill 18y agoNice, so it looks like reality is exactly the opposite of what the author claims. Thanks for finding the data!
- dcurtis 18y agoInteresting. I'll update my post. Also, hilariously... http://dustincurtis.com/screenshots/Actual_Browser_Sizes_%28final%29_-_Reports_-_Baekdal.com-20090505-174638.jpg http://dustincurtis.com/screenshots/Actual_Browser_Sizes_%28...
- tdavis 18y agoThis doesn't take into account wider resolutions such as 1920x1200 which is what I've been running at for years. My browser takes up 2/3 of the screen and only 3/4 of that space is actual viewable page. Having it wider than that is generally unnecessary and a waste of space.
- alex_c 18y agoThat's why I mentioned the years, those reports are a bit old. Still, even today, 1920x1200 is far from accounting for "most" users.
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