> If you ask the users what they want (and you have reliable sampling) you're going to get the same result - very few of them will be running 550px wide browser windows.
That's a very huge assumption. I know many people who would have 550px browser windows if those browser windows weren't cluttered with all sorts of garbage that won't go away when the window is resized.
> It's not a huge assumption at all. Lots of us already have access to this data from our analytics.
So you're saying that a lot of people have access to privacy-violating analytics. And that the analytics don't tell you what people want. And so you make decisions based on inferred information.
So again you're off track. We're here to talk about responsive design, not privacy issues. Analytics don't tell you what people want, but what they do. And what they do is browse the web in mostly large or maximised windows (when on desktop).
No I'm not.
> If you ask the users what they want (and you have reliable sampling) you're going to get the same result - very few of them will be running 550px wide browser windows.
That's a very huge assumption. I know many people who would have 550px browser windows if those browser windows weren't cluttered with all sorts of garbage that won't go away when the window is resized.