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scroll bars, touch area for fingers, tray applications, IME bars, pop-ups, desktop gadgets, notification boxes

I think every web designer should have known that, not every corner of the screen is free.



The description didn't mention taking any screen obstructions into account, so I don't think you're correct; more likely it's the effect of overlapping screen-widths and heights. I think the answer is mobile browsers and netbooks.

The bumps disappear after the 350 vertical and the 600 horizontal line, so the screens making the difference are around that size.

Some small percentage of people have narrow but tall browsers (non-iPhone mobile browsers), so that's the little bump at the bottom-left of the 99% band. And other people have very wide but short screens (netbooks), so that's the bump at the top-right of the 99% band.




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