The Screen

A lot of people seem concerned about screen resolution when it comes to planning their page layout.

The browser viewport is where your web page displays and that is not the same thing as your visitor's screen. Even where your visitor has their browser open to fill the screen you still need to deduct for any fixed toolbars on the desktop and the browser chrome itself. Where screen resolution is somewhat relevant is where you are attempting to open a new window (assuming your visitor let's you). There the most useful sizes to know are those of the screen less any fixed toolbars giving you the space available in which to display the browser window. The BOM can provide us with this information.

The Screen