Viewable Area Test

Oct 3

Viewable Area Test

I’m curious to the relationship between screen resolution and actual viewable browser area (see this post). I need your help.

I wrote a quick page that will print out the two for you (it should work, anyway — I wrote it in 30 seconds and tested it for about that long). This page will tell you:

  1. Your screen resolution.
  2. The viewable area of the browser window you load the page into.

(Note: IE under XP SP2 may complain about “active content” or some such garbage. If you trust me, just “Allow blocked content…” If you don’t trust me, then I’m hurt, I really am.)

So go to this page, copy the results out of the textbox, and paste them into a comment on this entry. If you feel ambitious, perhaps let us know what “viewable area intrusions” you have running (bookmarks toolbar, CSS toolbar, just don’t run the browser fullscreen, etc.).

One more time, here’s the link.


Comments

by Deane,   October 3, 2005 3:03 PM  

I'll start:

Screen: 1024 x 768

Viewing Area: 786 x 524

Using the bookmarks sidebar in Firefox.


by Tim,   October 3, 2005 3:05 PM  

Screen: 1024 x 768

Viewing Area: 1024 x 606

Firefox with Navigation and Bookmarks Toolbars and the Windows XP task bar across the bottom


by Rob,   October 3, 2005 3:25 PM  

Screen: 1280 x 1024

Viewing Area: 920 x 775


by James D.,   October 3, 2005 3:28 PM  

Screen: 1280 x 1024

Viewing Area: 901 x 785

Firefox with Sage RSS panel open.


by tom,   October 3, 2005 3:39 PM  

Screen: 1152 x 864

Viewing Area: 1000 x 493


by drmthtr,   October 3, 2005 3:43 PM  

Screen: 1280 x 1024

Viewing Area: 1053 x 897

Firefox w/ Sage RSS viewer sidebar


by Marcin,   October 3, 2005 3:47 PM  

Screen: 1280 x 1024 Viewing Area: 847 x 821

Opera w/ sidebar


by ,   October 3, 2005 3:59 PM  

Screen: 1600 x 1200

Viewing Area: 1209 x 1005

IE 6


by Paul,   October 3, 2005 4:04 PM  

Screen: 1024 x 768

Viewing Area: 956 x 525

Firefox on Fedora Core 3, Gkrellm on the right, gnome panels top and bottom.


by Ken,   October 3, 2005 4:09 PM  

Screen: 1680 x 1050

Viewing Area: 1024 x 730

Safari with tabs and an address bar across the top.


by Dave,   October 3, 2005 4:20 PM  

There is a minor problem with the code. I run two screens. 1920x1200 on my laptop, and 1280x1024 as a secondary.

IE was running on the 2nd screen, fully expanded (1259 x 853).


by mrlachatte,   October 3, 2005 4:22 PM  

Screen: 1280 x 1024

Viewing Area: 1277 x 836

fullscreen Firefox, tab bar, status bar, bookmark bar, windows taskbar


by Craig,   October 3, 2005 4:25 PM  

Screen: 1280 x 1024

Viewing Area: 940 x 745

Mozilla 1.7.7: Navigation, Personal and Tab toolbars.


by ,   October 3, 2005 4:31 PM  

Screen: 1400 x 1050

Viewing Area: 1318 x 795

Firefox 1.07 using tabs, no sidebar and not maxed on screen.


by Brian,   October 3, 2005 4:39 PM  

Screen: 1280 x 1024

Viewing Area: 1280 x 838


by ,   October 3, 2005 4:52 PM  

Screen: 1280 x 1024 Viewing Area: 1278 x 856 Firefox: usual toolbars, tabs, small icons


by Rob West,   October 3, 2005 5:14 PM  

Screen: 1680 x 1050

Viewing Area: 1145 x 712

Firefox + small icons + web developer toolbar + all-in-one-sidebar + delicious toolbar


by ,   October 3, 2005 5:18 PM  

Screen: 1280 x 1024

Viewing Area: 1005 x 786

Double-sized Windows start bar (twice as high). Sometimes ICQ sits on Left-hand side.


by Josh,   October 3, 2005 5:35 PM  

Screen: 1600 x 1200

Viewing Area: 1432 x 948


by Jon Mark,   October 3, 2005 6:01 PM  

Screen: 1600 x 1200

Viewing Area: 1592 x 952

Firefox, tabs, small icons


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