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browsersize.com updates

December 22nd, 2008

Last night I touched some code that hadn’t been touched for years. I refactored the plug-in detection code at whatsmy.browsersize.com and added detection for the Microsoft Silverlight plug-in. I also added bookmarklet support for setmy.browsersize.com and brought back to life a feature that had been broken long ago: specifying arbitrary URLs in the form http://setmy.browsersize.com/1024x768 to set the browser size. With an exclamation mark at the end, the browser gets resized and then goes back to where the the user left off: http://setmy.browsersize.com/1024×768!

This entry was posted on Monday, December 22nd, 2008 at 6:50 pm and is filed under Projects, Web Design. Trackback.

2 Comments

  1. nologo
    January 19th, 2009 at 10:03 pm

    Yıllardır whatsmy.browsersize.com adlı siteni kulanıyorum hatırlamıyorum tam olarak ama epey oldu…

    neyse bu güne kadar kim yaptı diye hiç meraketmedim kimse kim diyordum fakat cidden bir teşekkürü sana borc bilirim ellerine sağlık hocam.

    iyi çalışmalar.

  2. Craig Walker
    March 14th, 2009 at 1:13 pm

    Hi Ates. I found browsersize while re-googling this article:

    Design for Browser Size, Not Screen Size.

    I think your site is great. It prompted some ideas & questions for me:

    - Is your browser detection reporting the gross size of the browser window or the net size of the browser content area? (I’m assuming the former since that’s how you describe it, but I wanted to be sure).

    - If the former, do you know of a way to detect the browser content area size? That’s the dimension that the web designer should *really* be interested in.

    - I see you’re recording the browser stats for the people who visit your site. Getting these metrics is a very good thing as it helps inform designers. Is it possible to get this information from some sort of unintrusive web-bug/google analytics -style object or script? What I’d like to see is the ability to get a wider sampling of browsers from multiple sites. If it’s possible to have a simple drop-in detector, site owners could add it to their site and get size stats on their own visitors. (Obviously, cross-site-scripting concerns would have to be addressed, but Google seems to have found a way).

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