"I Hereby state that the screen resolution is not the browser resolution!"For some time now the web designers have been using statistics inmonitor sales and usage to foresee what size the website should use.When the screen resolution rises above 1024x768 it cannot be assumedthat the user want to use the full screen for browsing. I quick lookaround my colleges suggest something completely different. Most of themnever use the browser in full-screen mode anymore.A quick, and very unscientific study, suggest that about 70% useswindowed mode instead. I started to examine my own use after that. Attimes I took screen shots of my browser and saved. After a while Iexamined those and found that most of the time I used a 900x900 windowfor my browser (well 800-900). I will continue to observe thisphenomenon for a while. It would be great to see some real statisticsabout it.But it may not be that the 900x900 size is the optimum, it could aswell be that most sites using a resolution of 800x600 as norm. Thatwould mean that when viewing the width is sufficient when I set it to800-900 and the height, well I don't like to scroll the window so thatexplains why I don't stop att 600-700.So do I have a conclusion for this? Well not exactly, I always suggestusing a variable width for the main information area. It allows peopleto use whatever width they have and want, it annoys me when I'm notallowed to use the screen width I want. At least set maximum requiredwidth to no more than 800.