[thelist] Recording screen resolution in web logs

aardvark roselli at earthlink.net
Fri Nov 22 14:14:01 CST 2002


> From: Francois Jordaan <francois.jordaan at wheel.co.uk>
>
> I want to add some code to a website so that I can survey for the next
> 3 months the users' browser specs. This will give me stats to work
> with for a planned redesign.
[...]
> Would this work?
> a. write some Javascript that docwrites a query string onto an image
> on the home page, something like ?x=640&y=480 b. Server web log
> records the query string c. report off the web log in due course

oh, this is *too* easy... c'mon, ask me something hard!

Real-World Browser Size Stats, Part I
http://evolt.org/Screen_Stats_1

it's a JS/ASP/cookie solution, but you can easily see how it can be
rebuilt in PHP, JSP, or colored legos set on quantum bit-switches
within a colloidal suspension tank...

ok, i haven't done the last one yet...

oh, and be sure you read part 2...


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