Video screen size survey

[WayneF]

I have a survey basically of video screen size popularity, at
Image resolution for the video monitor screen

There was a previous error in it, causing some entries to be recorded several percent smaller than they were (CSS pixel ratio, mostly smart phones). I have fixed it, and reset it, so it's empty now (but historical data is available there back to 2002).

If you care to click the link above, and then click the survey (clicking the survey is required to record your numbers), it will record your screen size, and hopefully get it populated with a few entries. If you've already done this in the past, this is a restart, and again now would be appreciated too. Can be desktops, cell phones, tablets, etc.

However only one IP address is accepted to prevent counting repeated tries (actually, it is supposed to accept a new resolution at same IP after a one hour wait from last try).

I think it is OK now, but comments would be appreciated about any odd effects that might be seen (via PM is probably better than the forum for that).

Thanks much for your help.

 

[paul04]

All working ok, I have noticed quite a few people using 1920x1080.

I did had a monitor, but could not get the setup correct, so now using a TV with HDMI input which is a lot better.

 

[RocketCowboy]

Wayne ... how does the app/survey determine which monitor on a multi-monitor setup to use? It looks like just whichever display has the web browser active?

 

[Pretzel]

Clicked, surveyed.

 

[WayneF]

It has seen multiple monitors, but they just report a screen size like 3840x1024, or 5760x1080. If you are only using one monitor for the browser, I'd expect it to use that one (I am not sure, but what else could it do if the monitors were different sizes?).

The parameters come from the browser - the reported screen size (which can be greatly affected by zooming - which is how it zooms) and the Pixel Ratio, and computes the hardware screen size from that. But not everything works the same, there have been surprises. The browsers all have differences, but I was able to only code one exception for Chrome. They are all alike unless the screen is zoomed, then they go different ways. Chrome and IE report Pixel Ratio of 1 (until zoomed), but Firefox reports the Windows text size number, like 1.2 for 120% (and they all change more with zoom). Device size is (reported screen size times Pixel Ratio), except Chrome reports actual for reported (so no multiply). The cell phones seem better behaved, but I have not seen Android yet.

Have to say the participation results from here have been less than hoped for. 98 thread views here in a day and a half, but only four hits on the survey button data from here. Thanks very much to those four, but I was hoping for more.

I'm feeling pretty good about it's corrections now. The Chrome fix was just today, zooming was making it too large yesterday, but fixed now. So y'all come back if it looked strange before... and click the @&#% button.

So it has seen the browsers, and seen iPhone and Windows phone, but it has not seen Android yet. I worry they may be like Chrome?

If anyone has an Android phone, I would really appreciate your looking at
Image resolution for the video monitor screen with it, and clicking the button.
Hopefully with initial default screen, and again with the screen zoomed to be different than the initial default. For that, I've been shrinking it so the 500 pixel image there just fits the screen width closely.
On that page, if you do change zooming, then you have to refresh the web page for it to see the change.
Even if survey fusses "you already voted", it does not matter, for now all the data is still logged at the Survey button.

And if you see any strange screen size numbers, I'd sure like to hear details.

 

[RocketCowboy]

It has seen multiple monitors, but they just report a screen size like 3840x1024, or 5760x1080. If you are only using one monitor for the browser, I'd expect it to use that one (I am not sure, but what else could it do if the monitors were different sizes?).

The parameters come from the browser - the reported screen size (which can be greatly affected by zooming - which is how it zooms) and the Pixel Ratio, and computes the hardware screen size from that. But not everything works the same, there have been surprises. The browsers all have differences, but I was able to only code one exception for Chrome. They are all alike unless the screen is zoomed, then they go different ways. Chrome and IE report Pixel Ratio of 1 (until zoomed), but Firefox reports the Windows text size number, like 1.2 for 120% (and it changes more with zoom). Device size is (reported screen size times Pixel Ratio), except Chrome reports actual for reported (so no multiply). The cell phones seem better behaved, but I have not seen Android yet.

Have to say the participation results from here have been less than hoped for. 98 thread views here in a day and a half, but only four hits on the survey button data from here. Thanks very much to those four, but I was hoping for more.

I'm feeling pretty good about it's corrections now. The Chrome fix was just today, zooming was making it too large yesterday, but fixed now. So y'all come back if it looked strange before... and click the @&#% button.

So it has seen the browsers, and seen iPhone and Windows phone, but it has not seen Android yet. I worry they may be like Chrome?

If anyone has an Android phone, I would really appreciate your looking at
Image resolution for the video monitor screen with it, and clicking the button.
Hopefully with initial default screen, and again with the screen zoomed to be different than the initial default. For that, I've been shrinking it so the 500 pixel image there just fits the screen width closely.
On that page, if you do change zooming, then you have to refresh the web page for it to see the change.
Even if survey fusses "you already voted", it does not matter, for now all the data is still logged at the Survey button.

And if you see any strange screen size numbers, I'd sure like to hear details.

Based on what I saw here with my MacBook Pro, I just connected remotely to my Mac Pro at home and verified the same results. With OSX and multiple displays, it's only returning a single result ... that being the active monitor. My MacBook Pro is here connected to the hotel TV via HDMI, but the surveyed screen resolution was the built-in LCD display. With the Mac Pro, I have two 27" thunderbolt displays and a separate 19" monitor that runs 1920x1080. With the Mac Pro it only displayed the second display. It is not calculating the total display width across all available displays, just the active display.

That probably makes sense, since if I try to stretch a browser window across multiple displays, that does not work either; the app will get pinned to one display or the other, but not span multiples.

 

[WayneF]

Your desktop (that shows the browser)... does the desktop stretch across multiple screens?

I'm ignorant about multiple monitors, but the survey just reports whatever the browser says. I have seen two and three wide (multiples of 1920), but would not recognize any single screens as multiple. I would imagine there are different drivers and configuration choices that probably offer different modes?

 

[RocketCowboy]

Your desktop (that shows the browser)... does the desktop stretch across multiple screens?

I'm ignorant about multiple monitors, but the survey just reports whatever the browser says. I have seen two and three wide (multiples of 1920), but would not recognize any single screens as multiple. I would imagine there are different drivers and configuration choices that probably offer different modes?

Nope. And you're right, that's probably the distinction. On Windows, I could do the stretched desktop image and have it span across multiple monitors. On OSX, each display gets its own desktop, and while they can all be the same image, the image does not span across the displays.