I ran across this report by Thomas Baekdal while doing some research on this
topic. It's two years old but still relevant. I would think the point about
browser widths would still hold up with wide screen monitors. Ultimately you
need to capture viewport dimensions to see what your audience is doing with the
browser.
http://www.baekdal.com/reports/actual-browser-sizes/abs-browser/
<http://www.baekdal.com/reports/actual-browser-sizes/abs-browser/>
*
80% of users at 10x7 maximized their browsers
*
"Comparing maximized browser usage with the individual screen
resolutions, we see another interesting behavior. The bigger the screen, the
less likely people is to maximize their browser. But, we need to go above
1400px before we see any substantial drop."
*
"People use the available width of the browser until we reach 1280px,
then it levels out. There is no substantial difference in browser size when
people use high resolution screens."
- Joel
Joel Tachau
Director of User Experience
MFG.com
________________________________
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Nick Gassman
Sent: Fri 9/19/2008 5:25 PM
To: Sachin Ghodke
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] right hand vertical menus
On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:51:58, Sachin wrote:
>Most of the browsers are viewed with maximized windows and with
>options of adding a tab within the browser window the users by
>default would maximize the windows. This will not allow the right
>hand side menus to go out of the browser windows. Moreover if you
>look at the trend, more users are shifting to resolution larger than
>1024x768.
>
Sachin, do you have some stats about how many people maximise their
browser windows? A while ago we did collect some site stats from an
application (that we sadly no longer have) that showed that relatively
few of our visitors maximised their browsers.
* Nick Gassman - Usability and Standards Manager - http://ba.com
<http://ba.com/> *
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