Hi, I'm Chen, the developer of resizeMyBrowser. Recently I was looking for a browser resizing application, there're quite some but none of them fit my needs, so I decide to write my own. What I expected seems simple:
On June 14, 2010 I started this project. The more time I involved in it, the more I can understand why there was no such an application exist before. It's really complex and time-consuming to achieve the goal above. Let me explain why:
Firstly, the "resizeTo" event can only set the browser size by Outer window, you need to write your own function to implement the "resizeTo by Inner window" effect.
Secondly, unlike Safari and Firefox, IE(6/7/8) don't even have property to get Outer window size. You need to think out a practicable workaround to get it for the IE users.
Moreover, make a good application is not like just write a bunch of code and stitch them together, there are also many other important things to do, such as Web layout/interface design, user experience and more.
Luckily, after 24 full days of really hard working, I overcame the difficulties and finished the first version of resizeMyBrowser.
I'm now pretty enjoying using it myself, hope you can find it useful too.
resizeMyBrowser works best on Safari, Firefox and IE.
Because of the "resizeTo bug of Google Chrome", resizeMyBrowser can't always works proper on it. I made a huge effort try to avoid the bug but you know, it's the bug of the Google Chrome browser, I've no perfect solution for that yet. As long as Google fix its bug, resizeMyBrowser will works proper on it immediately.
Doesn't work on Opera browser because it doesn't support "resizeTo" event, hope the Opera team can do something for it.
I'd like to continuously improve resizeMyBrowser based on your feedbacks.
You can follow me on Twitter to stay up to date. Or you can email me at chenluois@gmail.com.
I release resizeMyBrowser as a free web application and don't want to include ads. If you like what I do, please help me continue to do so by donating (Even if 1 dollar is helpful!).
Thanks for your support!