What I would find interesting is to get information about how the switch to 16:9 displays is going to affect website usability. I don’t have one so I don’t know but I can imagine people put two windows next to each other instead of one full screen webpage.

And wat about the increased resolution. Because I’m use to seeing the resolutions used by professionals I’ve noticed that people still keep upping their resolution, but are not increasing the size of icons and text.

Based on Fitt’s law, that would increase the time to hit a target.

However when they see my screen at 1024×768 or 1280xWhatever they always ask what is wrong with me.

How do you think greater screens and resolutions affect websites. On a fullHD screen of the same size you could fit almost 4 screens at the same size and resolution as before on a 1024×768.

While I’m not in a position to argue with your science I take issue with your example screenshots. The shots you use look basically square (including browser chrome) whereas I don’t think this is the case for most people (a more common ratio of 4:3 landscape).

Visualising this 20% Discomfort Zone on a landscape window makes the findings a *lot* different (and I’d suggest would nullify your examples).

There is, of course, debate over how many users browse full screen…