Back in 2005 i posted a text about the actual resolution on the browser and how different it is to the screen size. My very unscientific numbers suggested that the width of the web app should be focused around 800-900.Well it turns out some others had made the same observations. Jesper Rønn-Jensen found similar evidence and in his design for browser size not screen size and a more elaborated measurement by Baekdal in actual browser sizes seems to support this findings as well.An interesting observation is that a wide screen 17" and 19" often have the resolution 1680x1050, it will fit two browsers side by side perfectly.The question still remains; is the size depending on personal preferences or is it a result of the current web designs used. In current designs, most of the time the lines are either too long in full screen or the site will only display blank information on half the page. Give me a column handled full screen version of a web page and I might switch to maximized.