Do users resize their browser windows, or is it just developers and designers?

This has been an on going thought of mine for a long while now. When working in design and development businesses, there’s always someone who would say “look what happens when you resize the window…” then having to spend a long time fixing the slight visual quirk.

My argument against this has often been that this is an edge case and “real” users don’t resize their windows very often. So was it worth doing the work for benefit of a very small set of users (of course dependant on the audience of your…