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Maximizers by Operating System
maximizer — one who maximizes the browser window.
Roger Johansson posted a poll a couple of days ago with the intent to learn how many people usually maximize their browser windows.
He has just posted the results and I thought I'd share them with you.
Do you maximize your browser window?
A tie!
Overall results:
- Yes 50.4%
- No 49.6%
Maximizers by Operating System
- MacOS 20%
- Windows 65%
- Linux 64%
- NetBSD 33%
Chart, for perspective
source: 456bereastreet.com
Maximizers by screen width
- 800 50%
- 1024 73%
- 1152 71%
- 1280 61%
- 1400 38%
- 1600 47%
- >1600 22%
Conclusion?
A hell of a lot of people don't maximize their browsers on Windows. Like Roger, I was expecting this to be higher... But I guess people with big monitors also use Windows, so that isn't much of a surprise.
Above 1280 is when most people start to get bothered by all the white-space on the margins and avoid maximized windows. They want to take advantage of their screen estate. Good for them.
One little note, though, on the fact that only 6 people responded with 800x600 resolutions. Sweet.
With all this being said, please bear in mind that this is a website centered on web development so the results could be skewed. Take this with a grain of salt, but remember that we, developers, are users still. If anyone has the ability to perform this sort of poll on a more general website, do so. We thank you.
José Carlos on sun, 15 apr 2007 20:44
Their browser window must be almost maximized. It's a common situation.
Funny part when he was getting confused on how to handle all the data.
jcraveiro on mon, 16 apr 2007 02:48
andr3 on mon, 16 apr 2007 20:18
I believe this is good reference for when you need to argue about why not to go with wider than 800 static layouts. Of course, it doesn't apply to liquid / elastic layouts, though.
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