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ResizeMyBrowser – An Online Application to Resize Your Browser Windows

While developing a website, a developer has to take into consideration the resolution of the website being built. The resolution of the website built matter as you need to be sure that the webpage is displayed properly on different screen. The display screen and options being used vary from user to user thanks to the variety of browsing options available now, for instance the mobile web is exploding and the tablet/netbook.

ResizeMyBrowser, created by a developer named Chen Luo, is a very simple web app that lets you snaps your browser’s width and height to a selected resolution which makes it viewable on various screens.

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The app provides you with a common set of resolutions that you can choose from, it includes the landscape and the portrait view for the iphone , ipad, and also Nexus One! If you are not using any of the gadgets listed above then the app lets you set your own customized resolutions that it will remember the next time you use the app again.

This app lets you effectively and efficiently resize your browser window to the 15 preset options that it has stored which are often used for laptops and netbooks. It uses the resizeTo JavaScript event, which means it won’t work in Google Chrome (a bug) or in Opera (not supported). But it works in all other desktop browsers.

In short ResizeMyBrowser is the perfect tool for you if you are testing out you website to make sure its compatible with the various set of monitors and display screen available out there! The tool is very simple and easy to try out.

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